Caught on camera: Woman attacked in Madurai shop for refusing to talk, rejecting advances

Tamil Nadu News: Amid growing anger over the attack on a lawyer and a teacher in Tamil Nadu, a woman was brutally attacked for rejecting romantic advances in Madurai.

The incident, which was caught on camera, took place at a photocopy shop in Madurai’s Chakra Nagar.

According to India Today report, the accused has been identified a 25-year-old Siddiq Raja.

On Sunday, when Lavanya was in a shop, the accused attacked her after she refused to talk to her following which she fell unconscious.

The accused has repeatedly professed his love for her.

The victim was rushed to the hospital by people from neighbouring shops.

A case has been registered, and further investigation is being carried out by the Othakadai police.

In another incident on Wednesday, a woman teacher was stabbed to death by a youth in full view of her colleagues at the school’s staff room in Mallipattinam government school.

The teacher was rushed to the government hospital here, but was declared dead by the doctors.

Terming teacher M Ramani’s death as an irreparable loss to the school education department, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin assured stringent action as per law on the assailant.

Expressing his deepest condolences and sympathies to the bereaved family, the chief minister said in a release that he had directed the officials to provide a solatium of ₹5 lakh to the affected family from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund.

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami condemned the murder and said the incident had exposed that government teachers and doctors lacked safety and security at their workplaces.

“The DMK government has failed to maintain law and order. Murders and other crimes have become very common in Tamil Nadu. At least now the Chief Minister should devote his attention to maintaining law and order in the state,” Palaniswami said in a post on the social media platform ‘X’.

In another incident, an advocate was brutally attacked by a man in front of the court complex in Hosur, triggering protests.