Agitated over the murder of a second year engineering student of YMCA University in Faridabad, students went on the rampage on Monday morning damaging public property and causing a traffic jam on Faridabad-Mathura national highway no- 2 for almost three hours. Aakash Sehrawat, a first year Mechanical Engineering student was found dead at a university hostel. Police have arrested two students of the same institution on Monday. An official said the murder was result of love triangle. The two accused in the matter are still absconding.
Demanding the arrest of two remaining accused, the students on Monday gathered on Delhi Agra highway to demonstrate. Police have arrested the two college mates of the victim in this matter and prima facie, it appeared to be a case of love-triangle.
The police commissioner of Faridabad, A S Chawla said that the deceased was identified as 20 years old Aakash Sehrawat, a first year Mechanical Engineering student and native of Hisar district of Haryana. His father is a lecturer in the Hisar University. “He was staying in Paying guest (PG) in city’s sector 55 for the last two years and was missing from the PG since Sunday evening,” he added.
Police said that the incident came to light around 7 am on Monday when the Sehrawat was found dead in his hostel room with head injuries. He was hit with a blunt object and preliminary investigation revealed that the motive behind the murder was enmity arising out of a love affair. “After registering the case of murder at Ballabhgarh police station against four persons, police have arrested two persons, Vishal, an electrical engineering student and Abhishek Kaushik, both are the students of same college. Other two culprits are absconding but police have identified them,” a senior police officer said.
“During interrogation, arrested accused said Aakash was called by them at room number 8 of university hostel to settle down their dispute over the issue of girl. After a heated altercation, Aakash was hit by the iron rod,” the officer added.