A 28-year-old doctor set his Mercedes Benz car ablaze after a tiff with his girlfriend in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram on Thursday.

Police said the young couple went for a drive around Kancheepuram and then parked their car near a pond in Rajakulam village.. Suddenly, a quarrel broke out between the duo and soon Kavin, a doctor, poured petrol over his Mercedes car and set it on fire. His girlfriend tried to stop him but Kavin refused to listen to her.

The villagers informed the Kancheepuram Taluk police and the fire and rescue team rushed to the spot and doused the fire but the car was completely destroyed.

The police inquiry revealed that Kavin was from Dharmapuri and had completed MBBS last year in a private college in Kancheepuram last year and was working in a hospital. He was in a relationship with Kavya, a medical student from the same college.

The police have registered a case.