City polytechnic girl student attacked by youth

Hyderabad, July 02: In yet another bizarre incident, a third year polytechnic girl student was attacked by a final year student of the TRR Polytechnic College with a knife in Almasguda in the outskirts of the city today.

According to police, Sudhakar Naik, a native of Kadapa, was harassing Lavanya of the same college for the last two months to reciprocate his love. He also approached her parents with a marriage proposal which they refused to entertain.

Following their refusal, he developed a grudge against her and when the victim was doing some practicals in the college laboratory today, he attacked her with a knife, injuring her on the hand and stomach. On hearing her cries, fellow students came to her rescue and overpowered the accused.

She was admitted to a local corporate hospital and her condition was stated to be stable, police said.

The accused was arrested by the police.

—–Agencies