Spurned lover stabs girl inside college

COIMBATORE: In an incident that sent shock waves among the students and staff of the reputed  Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), a youth repeatedly stabbed a final year BE Computer Science girl student with a knife on the campus on Wednesday morning after she allegedly turned down his advances.  R Rini Tapasya, a hosteller, was walking towards her classroom with four classmates at 8.45 am when Arun Prasanna (23) grabbed her by the hair and attacked her repeatedly with a knife. Her classmates fainted when they saw her bleeding profusely.  On hearing the girls’ screams, other students, staff and security personnel tried to nab Arun. But, he tried to keep them at bay by slashing his wrist. He was later overpowered by the staff.  “Everything happened in a few seconds when students were coming into the college. Suddenly, we heard a loud scream in front of the computer technology block and found a youth brandishing a knife. We chased and caught him near the open auditorium,” a security guard said.  Rini, who sustained deep cut injuries on her chest and stomach and minor injuries on her elbow and shoulders, is in the ICU of a private hospital. Doctors said her liver has been damaged.  According to police, Arun and Rini, both hailing from Dindigul, had studied in the same school. “Arun has been asking Rini out since school days and he repeatedly used to send her SMSes to which she did not respond. He even used to accost her in the college often. When he couldn’t bear the fact that his requests were being spurned, he attacked her with a knife,” Inspector Jeevanantham said.  Arun had dropped out of an arts and science college in Dindigul where he was pursuing a BBA programme.  Curiously, there are two versions of how Arun was nabbed. College authorities said he himself dialled the police control room from his mobile phone asking them to rush an ambulance and was later caught by the staff. But, police said he was nabbed outside the CIT campus.  A case of attempt to murder was registered against him and he was remanded in judicial custody.