Chennai: In what appears to be the fallout of a spurned relationship, two students hacked their 23-year-old peer, who is also pursuing post-graduation in social work, on Platform 1 of the Kotturpuram MRTS Station, on Monday morning.
Sources said the victim was Syran, (23), an M.S.W student in a private arts and sciences college on South Canal Road in Adyar, was seated on a bench with his girlfriend on Platform 1 when the two assailants appeared at around 8.15 am.
The two picked up a fight which scared the girl who took to her heels. Sensing trouble, Syran attempted to wriggle out of the situation, but was pinned down by the duo who gave him a sound thrashing. They also inflicted knife injuries on his face and thigh.
Two constables, one from the Government Railway Police (GRP) and another from the Railway Protection Force (RPF), who were on duty at the station were busy attending to crowd regulation at the ticket counter downstairs and were alerted to get to platform 1 by commuters, who also alerted 108 Ambulance service. The injured was admitted to the Government Royapettah Hospital where he is being treated.
The assailants were identified as his peers from the same college and the injured had reportedly ditched a girl in the recently concluded college tour programme.
“The boy who attacked the student did it on the orders of another girl, who had a grudge against him after a tour which they went together on,” said a senior railway police official.
“This was a one-off incident. We had one RPF personnel at the station but due to the huge size of the station, he was not present at the site of the incident. We will be expediting the installation of CCTV cameras at the stations across the city as that will help prevent such incidents,” said a senior RPF official.
