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17-yr-old Kolkata student stabbed by classmate near metro’s ticket counter
The incident took place at about 2.30 pm near a ticket counter at the Dakshineswar station of the Kolkata Metro Railway
KOLKATA: A 17-year-old student was allegedly stabbed to death by his classmate following an argument at the Dakshineswar station of the Kolkata Metro Railway, police said.
The victim was identified as Manojit Yadav, a student at a school in the Bagbazar area. He was returning home after school with four more students when one of them stabbed him with a knife over a dispute, a police officer, who visited the spot, said, requesting anonymity.
The incident took place at about 2.30 pm near a ticket counter at the Dakshineswar station.
“While the boy who allegedly committed the crime managed to flee despite being chased by people on the platform, the other three took the profusely bleeding Yadav out of the station. He died while being rushed to the Baranagar state general hospital,” Anupam Singh, deputy commissioner of police, Barrackpore, told reporters.
A case was registered by the Railway Protection Force .
The three boys who took Yadav to the hospital are being questioned.
“My son was a good student…. I cannot understand why anyone would want to kill him,” Dharamdeb Yadav, the victim’s father, told reporters.
Later on Friday evening, police said the suspect, Rana Singh, was arrested from Howrah station when he was trying to leave the state with some family members.
"Singh turned 18 in July. Since he is an adult he will be kept in police custody tonight and produced before court tomorrow. He was trying to escape with some members of his family but our police teams deployed at the station spotted him," Anupam Singh, deputy commissioner of police, Barrackpore, told reporters.
