Youth arrested after nursing student’s death treated as murder, police say

Police in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district have arrested a 22-year-old man after the death of an 18-year-old nursing student was reclassified as murder. The accused was identified as Devarakonda Pavan Kumar of Vengannapalem village. The first-year B.Sc.

Nursing student, who attended a private college near Khammam, was found dead at her home on September 22 while she was alone. According to police, Kumar had known the student for about four years and had recently proposed marriage. Police allege that she rejected the proposal after a dispute between the two families.

Investigators allege that Kumar strangled her with a wire-like object at the rear of her house and then fled. The source material presents this as the police account; it does not include a statement from the accused or his legal representative. Police seized a motorcycle, two mobile phones, including the victim’s phone, and the motorcycle’s gear wire from the accused, according to the report.

The Julurupadu police initially registered a case under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita after receiving a complaint from the victim’s mother. Following the postmortem findings, the case was altered to murder under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The supplied material does not provide details of the postmortem findings, the evidence linking the seized items to the death, or the next stage of the investigation.

It also does not report whether the accused has appeared before a court or whether charges have formally been framed. The arrest marks a change from the initial treatment of the death as suspicious. The allegations remain subject to investigation and any subsequent judicial proceedings.