Student knifes classmate to death at Dakshineswar metro stn, held
Times of India | 13 September 2025
Kolkata: A Class 11 student at Bagbazar High School was stabbed to death by a classmate during a fight at a crowded Dakshineswar metro station on Friday afternoon.
As Manojit Yadav, 17, lay bleeding in front of the ticket counters, panicked commuters screamed in fear.
The boy died while friends were rushing him to Baranagar State General Hospital, police said.
Rana Singh, 18, who allegedly stabbed Manojit, was arrested late on Friday at Howrah station while he was trying to flee, officers said.
Barrackpore police commissioner Murlidhar Sharma said Manojit, accompanied by the student who allegedly stabbed him and two other students from another school, got off a metro train at Dakshineswar on his way home around 2.30 pm.
Local sources, however, said two more students were in the group.
"The two (who were with Manojit and Rana) said the accused slapped the victim after an argument. The boy then said something that angered the accused, who took out a knife from his bag and struck Manojit Yadav twice in the chest," said an officer.
After the stabbing Rana ran away, said a police officer. "We have got some footage from both inside and outside the station.
We have contacted the school and collected details of the accused," the officer said.
The students accompanying Manojit and Rana, the officer added, could not say what transpired between the two.
Soon after the 17-year-old was stabbed and panic gripped the station, cops from Dakshineswar police station and RPF personnel rushed to the spot and cordoned it off.
Neighbours said Manojit, a resident of SP Banerjee Road in Baranagar's Alambazar, regularly travelled home with friends by metro.
Metro authorities said train services were not disrupted.
"Police are trying to find out how the accused evaded security checks and boarded the train with a knife in his bag," a senior metro official said.