AURANGABAD: A 21-year old student of Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery was booked by city police on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation and cheating after he blamed his girlfriend for his

and started demanding money for compensating him for the fees he paid for the first year of his course.

The student, who hails from Beed district, gained admission to the BHMS course last year and studies at a college in

. His girlfriend is a classmate. The suspect, though bright, did not focus on studies and failed in the first year, so he was denied admission to the second year of the four-year course. Upset, he squarely blamed his girlfriend for his poor results and asked that she compensate his parents for the fees that they paid in the first year of the course.

The girl, appalled, stopped talking with him and kept him at arm’s length. The man began to pester her with messages on the phone and repeated attempts to call her. Angry that she dumped him, he took to social media, saying things about her father and making vile posts about her family. He threatened that her pictures would be uploaded on social media too, so she was shamed.