VELLORE: A

youth

forcibly tied

around the neck of a woman -- who is engaged to another man -- while they were travelling in a

near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district of

on Tuesday.

Fellow passengers thrashed the youth and handed him over to the Vaniyambadi Town police.

A senior police officer said Jagan of Sanrorkuppam village near Ambur had been in a one-sided love affair with a 21-year-old woman for the last five years.

Jagan used to travel in the same bus in which the woman travelled while she was studying in a college. Later, she joined a private company and continued to travel in bus.

The woman rejected his proposal several times. Last week, she was engaged to a man who is a distant relative.

Infuriated, Jagan “forcibly tied mangalsutra” around the neck of the woman while she was going for work in a private bus playing between Ambur and Vaniyambadi, a police officer said.

The police registered a case against him under Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act.