Puducherry stalker immolates himself, tries to kill girl by embracing her

Chennai: A 32-year-old man broke into a house in Puducherry, poured kerosene and set himself on fire. He died the same evening.

According to a report in NDTV, Senthil, a driver, had been stalking a 17-year-old girl for over a year, but she had rebuffed his advances repeatedly, which angered him. One afternoon, when the girl’s parents were not home, Senthil barged into the house, set himself on fire and then hugged the girl so she would also burn alive.

While Senthil is now dead, the girl has been hospitalised with 75% burn injuries.
A year ago, Senthil had accused the girl's family of chopping off his right leg and arm.

A police investigation revealed, however, that he lost the limbs because he was sprawled on a train track in a drunken state.

The girl’s family had repeatedly filed complaints against Senthil, but the police allegedly took no action.

The report comes months after Infosys techie Swathi S was hacked to death at a train station in Chennai. Like the girl’s parents, Swathi had also complained to the police about her stalker, to no avail.