PU Student Stabbed at Concert Bleeds to Death

Makeshift tourniquet tied around 21-year-old's thigh fails to stem excessive bleeding; hunt on for assailants, who police say were outsiders

- Naina Mishra and Rajanbir Singh

CHANDIGARH: The 21-year-old Panjab University student, stabbed during a brawl at a concert on the campus on Friday night, succumbed to excessive bleeding on Saturday morning after battling for life for almost 12 hours.

A festive concert by Haryanvi singer Masoom Sharma, organised by the campus student council on the UIET campus in Sector 25, had turned into a crime scene after a brutal attack on four youths—three of them students of PU and one a student of Chandigarh University (CU), Gharuan. While the CU student escaped unhurt, two others suffered stab wounds and the third a head injury.

Stabbed in the thigh, Aditya Thakur, a second-year computer science student at UIET, suffered significant blood loss by the time he was brought to the emergency ward at PGIMER. A makeshift tourniquet was tied around his injured leg at the crime scene to control the bleeding. However, it was not secured properly, failing to effectively stem the hemorrhaging, said doctors.