MTech students protest at JNTU

Hyderabad: Demanding the release of assistanceship of `8,000 per month, M.Tech students from JNTU staged a demonstration near the campus entrance in Kukatpally on Saturday. However, Registrar Dr N. Yadiah said that the TEQIP funds were meant for PG students who assist faculty members in teaching and lab works every week for a few hours, and not all students. A 27-year-old employee of a private firm in the city was on Saturday arrested for blackmailing a colleague using photos from her phone.

Cops said the suspect, B. Dinesh Kumar, had started harassing his colleague by sending her abusive messages after she rejected his advances. They added that he had threatened to leak images of the woman he had found on her phone.

According to official reports, Dinesh and the victim were colleagues at a private firm at Himayatnagar. A few months ago, Dinesh asked the woman to marry him but she turned down the proposal.

Angry with the refusal, cops say he transferred photos from the victim’s phone without her knowledge and proceeded to use them to blackmail her into submission.