Bhubaneswar: Infocity police Thursday arrested a student for brutally attacking the principal of Raja Madhusudan Deb Degree College in Patia. The student allegedly attacked the teacher as the latter had caught him red-handed while cheating during an examination six months back.
The attack took place June 30, but the arrest was made Thursday after a probe.
Sources said principal Prashant Rout had caught the BSc second year student while cheating and reprimanded him severely. Since then, the student was looking for an opportunity to exact revenge.
The student attacked Rout late in the night June 30. At around 10.00pm he entered Rout’s house located within the campus and attacked him with a hammer before fleeing the scene. An injured Rout was taken to the hospital for treatment, but before that, he managed to disclose the identity of the attacker.
Rout is currently undergoing treatment in the ICU of a private hospital here.
Based on the principal’s information, his family members lodged an FIR at Infocity police station following which the police arrested the accused Thursday night.
PNN