An student from IIT Delhi was arrested from the college's campus and brought here today for allegedly blackmailing an IIT Kanpur girl, police said.
Surendra Bhukhiya, a third year student of textile engineering at IIT-Delhi, was arrested for attempting to kidnap the girl and pressurising her to marry him, Circle Officer Shailendra Lal said.
The girl, a first year BTech student of IIT Kanpur, had registered an FIR against Bhukhiya in Kalyanpur police station on November 26, stating that the boy was threatening to misuse her pictures if she refused to marry him, Lal said.
The girl had lost her mobile phone and purse in November, which was found by Bhukhiya, who hails from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh, he said.
The accused asked her to meet him to return the phone and on this pretext, abducted her, the CO said.
He took her to a temple and attempted to force her to marry him, but she managed to escape, Lal said. Following the incident, Bhukhiya threatened to misuse her photographs obtained from her phone, and sent her vulgar messages over email, facebook and phone, he said.
The girl tried to reason with him, but after all else failed, she registered an FIR, following which the accused was arrested from the IIT Delhi campus, he said.
IIT Kanpur administration refused to comment on the matter saying the matter was being investigated by the police. Further investigations are on in the matter, Lal said.