A 22-year-old college student in Kerala’s Kottayam district died after her batchmate allegedly slit her throat on Friday, The Indian Express reported, citing the police.
The accused, 21-year-old Abhishek Baiju, allegedly attacked Nithinamol inside the campus of the St Thomas College of Pala town in Kottayam.
Baiju attacked his batchmate with a blade and then slit her throat, said Abhilash, sub-inspector at the Pala police station. Nithinamol died on her way to a hospital.
A security guard who saw the attack said that Baiju and Nithinamol had an argument at a driveway in the campus.
“And then in a quick flash, I saw him forcing her down on the ground, holding her throat,” the security guard said. “The attacker then wiped his hands off the blood and calmly sat a few metres away. He did not try to run away. He sat there till the police came.”
The police have taken Baiju into custody and registered a case against him.
Both the accused man and the victim were students of a food processing technology course and had been attending college to appear for their final semester examinations, The New Indian Express reported.
Sub-inspector Abhilash said that the motive for the attack was not yet clear.
“We have taken him [Baiju] into custody, but he’s not in a good mental state right now,” he said, according to The Indian Express. “We will have to question him to find out why he did it.”
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