Hyderabad, September 24: Police today arrested an engineering graduate who was on the run after allegedly killing his beloved for ditching him.
A special team nabbed A Venkata Shekhar from the city on charge of murdering Divya, a B Tech final year student, on Sunday last at Vanasthalipuram here, Cyberabad Police Commissioner S Prabhakar Reddy told reporters.
Shekhar came in contract with the victim while studying in a private engineering college here about three years back, the officer said, adding the two later became close friends.
But for the past six months, the girl had befriended another student, angering Shekhar who allegedly planned to eliminate her, Reddy said.
On September 19, he called Divya to his residence on the pretext of sorting out differences. Shekhar smashed her head with a baseball bat and fled the apartment, he said.
Shekhar has reportedly confessed to the crime and said she had ditched him.
–Agencies