<p>A 22-year-old female student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, who came here with a male student of IIT-Roorkee, was found murdered in a hotel room on Saturday. Since then, the accused had gone missing."The accused, Gaurav Verma, a third-year architecture student of IIT-Roorkee, was arrested from Jagadhari in Haryana Sunday morning," Shimla Superintendent of Police R.M. Sharma said.</p>.<p><br />He said the victim has been identified as Pragati, a third-year student of textile engineering of IIT-Delhi.Sharma said the duo reached here at around 3 a.m. Friday and checked into Hotel Rashik in Kaithu area. They were together Friday night, but Saturday morning the hotel staff found the woman bludgeoned to death and the man missing.<br />"While Gaurav belonged to Manikapur in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, Pragati belonged to Patna in Bihar," a police official said.<br /><br />Police talked to the principal of IIT-Roorkee who said Gaurav is a student there.<br />According to police, the duo came together in a cab from Delhi."The motive of the crime is yet be ascertained," Sharma said.<br /><br />Police found photographs of the duo on the victim's laptop and an answer-sheet of the accused from the scene. Two knives, a broken liquor bottle allegedly used in the crime and a cake were also found on the scene.</p>
<p>A 22-year-old female student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, who came here with a male student of IIT-Roorkee, was found murdered in a hotel room on Saturday. Since then, the accused had gone missing."The accused, Gaurav Verma, a third-year architecture student of IIT-Roorkee, was arrested from Jagadhari in Haryana Sunday morning," Shimla Superintendent of Police R.M. Sharma said.</p>.<p><br />He said the victim has been identified as Pragati, a third-year student of textile engineering of IIT-Delhi.Sharma said the duo reached here at around 3 a.m. Friday and checked into Hotel Rashik in Kaithu area. They were together Friday night, but Saturday morning the hotel staff found the woman bludgeoned to death and the man missing.<br />"While Gaurav belonged to Manikapur in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, Pragati belonged to Patna in Bihar," a police official said.<br /><br />Police talked to the principal of IIT-Roorkee who said Gaurav is a student there.<br />According to police, the duo came together in a cab from Delhi."The motive of the crime is yet be ascertained," Sharma said.<br /><br />Police found photographs of the duo on the victim's laptop and an answer-sheet of the accused from the scene. Two knives, a broken liquor bottle allegedly used in the crime and a cake were also found on the scene.</p>