Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru
Mangaluru, May 20: In connection with the death of aerospace engineering student Akanksha S Nair, a native of Dharmasthala, police in Jalandhar, Punjab, have arrested a professor.
The arrested accused is Bijil Mathew (45), a professor at Lovely Professional University. Akanksha's parents had filed a complaint at the Jalandhar police station, alleging that professor Bijil Mathew was responsible for their daughter’s death. During the investigation, police examined Akanksha’s mobile phone and discovered that she had messaged Mathew shortly before her death, indicating that she was about to end her life.
Following Akanksha’s suicide, Mathew had gone absconding. Jalandhar police have now taken him into custody, and the university has suspended him.
Akanksha, a resident of Boliyur near Dharmasthala, had been working with SpiceJet Aerospace in Delhi for the past six months. She was preparing to travel to Germany for advanced training and had visited Lovely Professional University in Punjab last Friday to collect certain academic documents. She later died after falling from the fourth floor of a campus building.
It has emerged that Akanksha was in a relationship with Bijil Mathew, a father of two from Kottayam, Kerala, and a professor at the university where she had previously studied. She had reportedly insisted that he marry her and had even visited his home. A quarrel ensued between them, followed by another argument at the university, after which Akanksha allegedly jumped from the fourth floor and ended her life.