The principal of an engineering college in India was hacked to death by three students in the campus at Vallanadu in Tuticorin district on Thursday morning.
The principal, LRD Suresh (53) of Infant Jesus College of Engineering and Technology sustained multiple cut injuries and was rushed to a government hospital but was pronounced dead.
The three students, who had managed to escape from the campus, were climbing a hillock nearby when police, with the help of other students, managed to nab them.
The three were identified as P Pichaikannan (21), a fourth year Aeronautical Engineering student from Nazareth, G Dannis (22), studying fourth year B Tech and M Prabakaran (21) from Nagapattinam studying third year BE Civil Engineering.
Police said Suresh had entered the campus at Kamaraj Nagar in Keela Vallanadu around 8.30am and was walking towards his office room, when the three students, who were waiting for him, surrounded him and attacked.
Police said that one of the students was suspended two days back by the principal and that could be the motive for the murder.
"Pichaikannan was suspended two days back. We suspect that the suspension and humiliation was the motive for the murder.
"Dannis and Prabakaran were friends of Pichaikannan and so they joined him in the attack," a police officer investigating the case said.
- TOI
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