The Times of India

Accenture techie murdered in Bengaluru: Student plotted killing after she resisted his advances; flat set ablaze to mask crime

A Bengaluru software engineer's death, initially thought to be from a house fire, has been reclassified as murder. A second-year pre-university student was arrested for allegedly smothering the woman after she resisted his advances and then setting her flat ablaze to conceal the crime.