Hyderabad, February 03: An engineering student was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend at Green Park colony today. The exact motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained but police suspect that a love affair between the victim and the accused’s sister to be reason.
Though locals alleged that the accused’s family members incited him to kill the youngster, police said they are yet to verify that version.
The victim, Ranjit Reddy (21), a resident of Reddy Colony in Kothapet, was a second year B Tech student of Scient college of engineering at Vanasthalipuram.
According to police, Ranjit came to his friend, Venkatadri’s house at Green Park colony at Champapet today evening. Venkatadri is a third year engineering student of the same college.
“Locals told us that Ranjit was in love with Venkatadri’s sister and used to visit the house to meet her,” L B Nagar assistant commissioner of police J Amarender Reddy said.
Today evening Venkatadri quarrel led with Ranjit over this and stabbed him with a screw driver near the kidneys.
Ranjit was shifted to a private hospital at Kothapet and later to Nagole but died while undergoing treatment.
Venkatadri is absconding.
—Agencies