On February 21, 2012 Times of India reported that an engineering student escaped with injuries in her neck and abdomen after her father attempted to kill her on Monday after she refused to end her love affair with a dalit youth. S Sundaramoorthy, 46, wanted his daughter S Gnanavalli, 21, to marry a groom from their community. He attacked her on Monday morning as she was proceeding to her college in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of north Tamil Nadu. Sundaramoorthy, a farmer, belongs to a dominant caste in Melavalaiammadevi village near Vriddhachalam. Gnanavalli was staying in her relative’s house in Chidambaram and studying final year civil engineering at a private college. She was going to the college when Sundaramoorthy stopped her at Annamalai Nagar and repeatedly stabbed her in the neck and abdomen and escaped.

The original article can be found at Times of India.