Police examine the spot at SME campus in Kottayam where a youth set a girl on fire. File PhotoKottayam: The physiotherapy student who was killed by her lovelorn senior has topped her class in exams held at the end of the third year of the course.
K. Lekshmi, 21, a final year student at the School of Medical Education at Gandhinagar in Kottayam, was set on fire on February 1 by a former student of the institution after she refused to reciprocated his advances. Both of them died of burns.
Lekshmi wanted to pursue a master’s degree and write civil service exams, her mother Usha Rani said.
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Her mark sheet is yet to be handed over to the institution by the university.
