'Forced to consume pesticide': Telangana lecturer kills engineering student after she befriended another man

In a tragic turn of events, 20-year-old engineering student Tandhra Akshitharani was reportedly killed by her former lecturer, Jetty Naveen Kumar. Following revelations of her sexual exploitation by colleague Bommakanthi Ravikumar, she was coerced into ingesting pesticide. Attempting to disguise the act as a suicide, Kumar fled after alerting her father.