A class 11 student stabbed his teacher to death in Assam's Sivsagar district inside the classroom on Saturday. The victim was a coaching centre teacher, police informed. According to reports, the teacher had scolded the student over some issue. However, it seems that the student couldn't take this insult and took the extreme step.
"We reached the coaching centre on receiving information of a stabbing incident. According to preliminary information, a student stabbed his teacher. There is a lot of blood in the classroom. The knife was also found there,” the officer said.
He said the teacher was taken to the hospital in a critical condition, where he was declared dead. The officer said the incident happened in the last period of the day, when other teachers had already left.
“We have picked up the student. We don’t know yet what led to the incident. We are in the process of collecting the CCTV footage,” the officer added.
A classmate of the accused claimed that the teacher had scolded him over some matter earlier in the day. The accused had left school and returned later, and when he entered the classroom, the teacher accosted him again. The student then attacked the teacher with a knife, the classmate claimed.
With inputs from PTI
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