Hyderabad: In a gory incident, a college student who was set ablaze by a stalker last month died at a hospital in Hyderabad yesterday.
According to media reports the 20-year-old woman of Ramachandrapuram village in Warangal was a final year student at a private institution.
She was harassed by a male friend asking her to marry him. Angered by the rejection, on 27 February, the man hurled petrol and then set her ablaze at the entrance of her college campus in Warangal. He was later arrested by the Hanamkonda police.
The woman suffered over 70 per cent burns and succumbed to her burns yesterday at the hospital.