Chandan intercepted the girl while she came out of a community hostel, where she stays, in Vijayanagar police limits.
The youth and the girl, who suffered burns, are hospitalised. MYSURU: A lovelorn youth from Mandya district tried to immolate himself and allegedly set a diploma engineering student ablaze near a college in Mysuru on Tuesday.
Police said Chandan (26) of Halaguru village in Malavalli taluk, Mandya district, doused himself with petrol and torched himself while asking her to love him and then attempted to hug the girl. Police said the incident happened around 10:15 am. The boy has suffered more than 60% burns while the girl sustained minor injuries and is out of danger, according to sources.
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The girl, a second-year engineering student, is said to be out of danger but under treatment while the accused boy has suffered severe burns and is battling for life at KR Hospital in Mysuru, according to Vijayanagar police. The girl, however, set herself free but sustained burn injuries, police said. Both the boy and the girl hail from the same village and belong to the same community, police said.
The boy worked in agricultural field to eke out a living at his native. Chandan intercepted the girl while she came out of a community hostel, where she stays, in Vijayanagar police limits. He insisted that she accept his love and immolated himself before hugging her. However, the public who rushed to help the girl doused the fire, but by that time the youth was severely injured. The girl pursued her pre-university education in Bengaluru and joined a diploma engineering course in Mysuru. Vijayanagar police have taken up a case against Chandan on charges of attempting suicide and attempted murder. Download the TOI App.