Chennai: A 32-year-old woman was robbed and attacked in the campus of Alagappa University in Ekkattuthangal on Friday afternoon.  Now, her condition is said to be stable.

According to the Guindy police, Mahalakshmi Mahadevan, a resident of Balammal Street in Ashok Nagar, Arumbakkam and an employee of a private firm, had gone to the university's office of distance education at Ambal Nagar to enquire about a course.

When she was returning from the first floor of her office around 1.30 p.m., a young man suddenly caught her from behind. “The suspect stabbed her in the abdomen twice and also inflicted a cut wound on her arm. He then stole the four sovereigns of gold jewellery she was wearing and fled along with an accomplice,” said an investigating officer.

When the passers-by saw this they took her to a private hospital. The victim's father said she had been moved to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in the evening. In addition the GH sources said that Mahalakshmi had suffered a tear in the liver and bowels as a result of the stab wounds and was taken for surgery around 9.30 p.m. According to the doctors  now she is out of danger.