IIT-Delhi student held

After two-and-a-half-months long investigation, Kanpur police arrested IIT-Delhi B Tech final year student Bhukayah Surendra (20) from his college on Wednesday. HT reports.

After two-and-a-half-months long investigation, Kanpur police arrested IIT-Delhi B Tech final year student Bhukayah Surendra (20) from his college on Wednesday.

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Surendra was arrested for attempted kidnap of an IIT-Kanpur B Tech first year student Suchita Sadavat (name changed) to compel her for marriage, intentional insult and criminal intimidation. He was also charged under the Information Technology Act.

Surendra was brought to Kanpur on Thursday and produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate-II court from where he was sent to jail.

On November 25, 2011, Sadavat had lodged an FIR at Kalyanpur police station, stating that Surendra, a resident of Varangal, AP, had abducted her from IIT-K campus and taken her to an Arya Samaj temple to force her for marriage.