The accused wanted in Neha Patil NIT student suicide case surrendered in a local court on Wednesday. The girl committed suicide on February 3 this year and police was in search of engineering student Ishant Mahto since then. Ishant surrendered in the court of Justice Udai laxmi Parmar who sent him to police custody remand for three days.
Ishant however refuted all charges leveled against him and claimed that he was innocent. He said that he had never pressurized Neha but she committed suicide under pressure of her parents.
Neha Patil, a student of 4th semester of National Institute of Technology (NIT) was found hanging in her hostelroom, leaving a suicide letter. later her parents accused Ishant for harassment to take the extreme step.
According to police Mehto had reached the hostel on February 2 and had created a scene to meet Neha but was stopped by the guards.
The next day, Neha was found hanging in her room. Mehto was on the run since then.