Jilted lover beats college mate to death with log of wood

Karur (TN), Aug 30 (PTI) In a shocking incident, a 20-yearold engineering student was allegedly beaten to death in herclassroom in a private college near here today by her seniorfor spurning his love. The incident comes two months after a similar brutalkilling of woman techie Swathi in a railway station in Chennaifor rejecting love of a man. K Sonali, doing BE Civil Engineering, was attacked by PUdayakumar on her head with a log of wood in broad daylighteven as some of her classmates present there looked in shock,police said. She bled profusely and was rushed to a private hospital inMadurai, about 140 km from here, where she succumbed withoutresponding to treatment, police said. The assailant was one year senior to the victim in thecollege. A native of Paramakudi in Ramanathapuram District,had dropped out of the institution last year. Udayakumar met the victim at the college canteen today. Asshe did not talk anything with him, he was infuriated. Hefollowed her, went to her classroom and hit her with a woodenlog, police said. He was arrested soon after the incident and a case ofmurder slapped against him. The college management has declared holiday for three daysfrom today. Swathi, employed with an IT firm, was hacked to deathallegedly by a man in the Nungambakkam railway station inChennai on July 24 in full public view in the morning. After aman-hunt, police arrested Ramkumar on the charge of killingher. PTI VGN SSN VSMRJ