Patient's Son Walks After Stabbing Chennai Doctor, People Shout "He Cut Him"

Dr Balaji had been treating the attacker's mother, a cancer patient. The attacker, also a patient attendanr at the hospital, suspected that the doctor prescribed wrong medication

A young man who stabbed a doctor multiple times at a Chennai hospital threw away the knife and calmly walked to the exit when people shouted "he cut him up" and security personnel grabbed him.

A video that emerged hours after the attack shows the accused, Vignesh, walking away after he stabbed Dr Balaji Jagannath, an oncologist and a teacher at the state-run Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital. The doctor had been treating the attacker's mother, a cancer patient. The attacker reportedly suspected that the doctor had prescribed wrong medication to this mother.

According to a senior doctor, Dr Balaji has a pacemaker and received injuries to his forehead, back, behind his ear, and stomach. Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian said he is in the ICU and his condition is stable.