Chennai, Sep 25 || A classroom dispute between two teenage boys turned violent when a Class 9 student allegedly attacked his classmate with a machete at a government-aided higher secondary school near Valliyoor in Tirunelveli district on Thursday.
According to police, the incident followed an argument the previous day between two hostel inmates over personal remarks.
On Wednesday, a 14-year-old boy from Sankarankovil in neighbouring Tenkasi district, belonging to a Scheduled Caste community, reportedly made offensive comments about the father of another student from an intermediate caste.
Teachers and fellow students intervened and pacified the boys at that time. However, tensions flared again on Thursday morning when the boy from the intermediate caste is said to have brought a machete into the classroom.