Guwahati, Jan 25 (Inditop.com) The sensational murder of a girl student by a Gauhati University professor in his official residence and then his attempt to commit suicide by consuming poison has numbed teachers and students at the premier educational institution in Assam.
A police spokesperson said Birlang Narzary, a reader at the department of Bodo language in Gauhati University, late Sunday murdered Jharna Goyari, a student in the same department.
“Around 9.45 p.m. Sunday, the university professor Birlang Narzary reached the Jalukbari police station and said he committed a crime. The teacher was visibly sick and was vomiting as he narrated the incident after which we immediately shifted him to a local hospital,” a senior police officer said.
Jharna, a boarder at the University hostel, was murdered inside the professor’s official residence in the campus using some blunt object with injury marks visible on her throat and head.
She was a third semester postgraduate student at the Bodo language department of the university where Narzary taught.
“We are investigating the matter and not ruling out the possibility of a love angle in the incident,” the official said.
The teacher after committing the crime consumed some poisonous substance and walked into the police station to confess the murder.
“Once the teacher is declared fit by doctors, we shall interrogate him to get more details into the incident,” the official said.
Police have since arrested 32-year-old Narzary, a bachelor.
“We are shocked and numbed by the incident of a teacher murdering a student,” another student said on condition of anonymity.
