In a shocking incident, a youth allegedly attacked a 19-year-old girl with a knife in a private engineering college at Kalitheerthankuppam near here on Tuesday. The girl sustained injuries on her neck and has been admitted to Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer).
Police said the girl was studying second-year B. Tech in a private engineering college at Kalitheerthankuppam while the youth Sugumaran had completed his B. Ed in a private college on the same premises. The girl was coming out of the college at around 4.45 p.m. when Sugumaran waylaid and picked up an argument with her. In a fit of rage, the youth attacked the girl with a knife and fled the scene. He later surrendered before the police.