New Delhi: An IIT scholar, who allegedly
murdered a teenaged girl from Manipur, was on Tuesday remanded to
14 days` judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Accused Pushpam Kumar Sinha, who was produced before
Metropolitan Magistrate Sourabh Pratap Singh Laler on
conclusion of his 14 days` custody, was sent to jail till
November 23.
Earlier, the court had sent the accused to one-day
police custody and during his interrogation, he had allegedly
confessed to his complicity in the offence.
Sinha, (34), who is doing research in wave mechanics
from IIT-Delhi, was arrested for allegedly strangulating the
girl at her second floor accommodation in South Delhi`s
Munirka on October 24 after she resisted his advances and put
her face on the gas stove and lit it to pass it off as a case
of accident.
The police had earlier said the accused was a "pervert
and maniac" who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder.
The post mortem report suggested she died of
strangulation and not due to burns, the police said.
Bureau Report