late on Sunday night, a teenage lovers attempted suicide on railway tracks ended in the death of the boy and the girl sustaining serious injuries.
The teenage lovers has been identified as Renuka Prasad 17years-old, a resident of Kammanahalli in Magadi. Prasad was in love with a 14-year-old girl, a class IX dropout, for the past couple of months. Prasad used to work as a data operator with a private company,where as the girl was employed at a garments factory.
According to police reports, the families of the two were opposed to the relationship as they belonged to different castes and were very young. Dejected with the family decision, the lovers decided to end their lives.
Both consumed rat poison and lay on the track between Kengeri and Nayandahalli. At about 11.15 pm as the speeding Kaveri Express neared approached them, the girl backed out and started running.
While Prasad was mowed down by the train, the girl sustained severe head injuries after the train struck her.The girl is said to be battling for life in a private hospital at Nimhans.
City Railway police have registered a case.