22-year-old law student beaten to death by masked men on university campus, one held

In a horrific incident, a final year undergraduate student was beaten to death on the law college campus of Patna University by some unidentified persons on Monday. The deceased identified as Harsh Raj was a student of BN College, Patna University. According to police, the main accused in the case has been nabbed.

During investigation it came to fore that Harsh was beaten to death over a heated altercation he had last year. The argument was allegedly over a Dandiya night.

The incident took place when the 22-year-old student was coming out from his examination centre in the afternoon, the police added.

"Information was received that a student, who had gone to appear for his graduation examination on the law college campus under the jurisdiction of Sultanganj Police Station, was beaten up by some unknown people. He was injured. The police reached the spot and took him to the hospital, where he died during treatment", said the Patna police in a statement.

The chilling attack on the deceased was captured on camera. The visuals from the campus show the masked men holding sticks repeatedly hit the victim.

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