HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old woman was throttled, her body stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a city drain by her boyfriend vexed with her constant pressure to marry her. Accused Sunil Kumar (25) is a structural engineer in a city-based company and the victim, B Lavanya, was a system engineer at TCS Synergy Park in

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Lavanya had been missing since April 7, but with her phone switched off and family not having any details of her boyfriend, police finally cracked the case using her call details to zero in on Sunil. He was arrested on Saturday night.

The couple had fallen in love while pursuing engineering at CMR College of Engineering and Technology. Both got jobs and marriage was on the cards too. But the college love story soon turned sour and Sunil began to avoid questions on marriage.

In February, under pressure from Lavanya, he lied to her family that he was ready for marriage as he had got a job in Muscat and asked them to send her along as he had arranged a job interview for her too, RC Puram inspector P Ramchandra Rao said. “After Lavanya’s family dropped them at the RGI Airport on April 4, Sunil told her that their flight was cancelled and checked into the Airport Lodge saying that they will take the next day’s flight,” ACP S Ravi Kumar said.

“Lavanya again raised the topic of marriage at the lodge and an argument broke out between them. Sunil throttled her and then stuffed the body in a suitcase on April 5 evening. That night he took the body to Sooraram in the city and dumped it in a drain,” the ACP said, adding that it was concealed in the drain under a ramp in front of local school so people did not notice it.

Since Lavanya had told her family that she would return on April 7, Sunil sent messages from her phone to her sister saying she had landed in the city and then switched it off. Unable to reach her, the family lodged a missing complaint with the police. The cops finally used call details to arrest Sunil.

“Based on Sunil’s confession, we recovered the body. He was produced before a magistrate on Sunday and sent to judicial remand,” the ACP said.