FARIDABAD: A woman teacher was stabbed to death inside a school in Faridabad on Monday morning. Police said the accused, who had allegedly been stalking her, attacked her after she stopped speaking to him and cut off all contact.
The attack took place around 9.30 am at Saraswati Senior Secondary School in Sikrona village. Police said the teacher was stabbed 15 to 20 times in the chest and neck.
A case was registered at Sector 58 police station on the complaint of the victim’s husband. Police said the accused was arrested within two hours of the incident.
CCTV footage of the attack, which has surfaced on social media, shows the accused waiting at the school’s main gate with his face covered by a scarf. As the teacher arrived, he pulled out a knife concealed in his pants and repeatedly stabbed her. A school staff member tried to intervene, but the accused threatened him with the knife before fleeing on a motorcycle.
School administrator Tejpal, who witnessed the attack, said the victim had been teaching at the school for about a year.
“Around 9:30 am, I was sitting in the office when I suddenly heard screams. When I went outside, I saw her lying on the ground and a man repeatedly attacking her with a knife. I tried to threaten him, but then he came running towards me with the knife as well. By the time I could retaliate, he had already attacked her and fled. He was alone and had come on a bike,” he said.
Tejpal said he informed the police and rushed the teacher to Al-Falah Hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
The Faridabad Police’s crime branch activated its informer network and used technical surveillance to trace the accused. The AVTS Sikrona team arrested Amit, 21, a resident of Kot village in Faridabad.
During preliminary questioning, the accused allegedly confessed that he attacked the teacher because she had stopped speaking to him and wanted to end all communication with him.
