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ShareNew Delhi: An IIT student, who allegedly murdered a teenaged girl from Manipur, was today remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by a Delhi court.
The accused Pushpam Kumar Sinha, who was produced before the Metropolitan magistrate on conclusion of his 14 day 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.
