Overview
- Police in Ramamurthy Nagar arrested 18-year-old Karnal Kurai, the victim’s neighbor, and a court remanded him to three days of police custody.
- Investigators allege he entered the flat through a sliding window around 9 pm, demanded sexual favors, and smothered the 34-year-old when she resisted.
- Forensic findings and the autopsy indicated death by suffocation and identified arson, contradicting the initial assumption of a short circuit.
- Police say the suspect set clothes alight in the roommate’s room to destroy evidence and fled with the victim’s mobile phone, which was later traced.
- He has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1), 64(2), 66, and 238, and investigators are reconstructing the sequence of events.