The three women at Gandhi Maidan police station. Picture by Ashok Sinha

Patna, July 11: A 22-year-old management student allegedly stabbed himself repeatedly on the Gandhi Maidan premises this afternoon after the girl he loved asked him not to trouble her.

The youth, identified as Vidya Shankar, was a resident of Railway Colony in Khagaul on Patna’s outskirts. He was studying for a business administration degree from an institute in Bangalore.

The girl (whose identity The Telegraph is withholding) is a final year student at Magadh Mahila College and stayed in the same colony as Shankar at Khagaul.

Police said Shankar was infatuated with the girl and used to regularly send her text messages and would call her frequently.

“According to the statement of the girl, the boy was troubling her and it was a one-sided relationship. But Shankar was adamant and had been pestering the girl to marry him. She had rejected his proposals and her marriage had been fixed recently to another boy. This made Shankar desperate and he reached Patna a few days ago and started pressuring the girl for a meeting,” said an officer at the Gandhi Maidan police station.

The girl finally agreed to meet Shankar one final time today at Gandhi Maidan and the rendezvous was fixed for 3pm. Shankar, according to the girl’s statement, had promised not to trouble her anymore after today’s meeting. The girl called over two women — a couple of sisters whom she addressed as Didi — to the maidan.

“The four met. Shankar and the girl started talking among themselves while the two sisters watched. Soon, the talk turned into a heated argument and Shankar started pressuring the girl to marry him. He added that if she refused, he would kill himself. In a fit of rage, the girl told him to do anything he wished to. Shankar called up home (his father Vijay Shankar is an assistant station manager posted at Barhaiya near Barh) and said it was his last call. He then consumed something, took out a knife and began to stab and cut himself repeatedly,” the police officer said.

With blood oozing out and the boy collapsing, passers-by surrounded the three women thinking they had attacked Shankar. The youth was packed off inside an ambulance — the incident occurred right in front of Red Cross Hospital — and taken to PMCH where he died.

The girl said she did not expect this to happen. “He was going on pressuring me and in a fit of rage I told him to do anything he wanted. He just took out a knife and stabbed himself repeatedly,” the shaken girl said.

The police said investigations were on. “The girl’s statement has been recorded but the matter appears confusing and suspicious. The role of the two sisters is also suspicious. The phone call details of the girl will be studied and the matter will be investigated from all angles. The women have been detained and are being questioned,” city superintendent Shivdeep Lande said.