Guwahati, Jan. 25: A sensational murder of a girl student by a professor of Guahati University and then his attempt to commit suicide has come as big shock for teachers and students of the premier educational institution of Assam. This came to light only after the university professor Birlang Narzary voluntarily surrendered to the police and confessed to have committed murder of his girl students at his official residence.
"The teacher was looking sick and was vomiting as he narrated the incident to the police officer on duty who shifted him to a local hospital," said the city police informing that teacher had consumed phenyl and some poisonous substance to commit suicide.
The police said that they have registered an FIR against Birlang Narzary, a reader at the department of Bodo language in Gauhati University, who was responsible for murder of Jharna Goyari, a student in the same department on Sunday. Goyari, a hostel boarder, was murdered inside the professor’s official residence using some sharp object with injury marks on her throat and head.
She was a third semester postgraduate student at the Bodo language department of the university where Narzary taught.
The police said, "The accused professor was admitted to a hospital in an unconscious stage but now he is out of danger. We are investigating the matter and not ruling out the possibility of a love angle in the incident."
The police said that accused 32-year-old Narzary, a bachelor, has already been arrested but they are waiting for the medical report. "Once he is declared fit by doctors, we will start interrogation," said the investigating officer of the case.
The incident has come as big shock for the teachers and students in university campus. As angry students on Monday boycotted all the classes in protest, some of the students and teacher looked speechless at university campus. "It has come as a major shock for us," said the students.
MANOJ ANAND