{
  "id": 9314898,
  "title": "T'gana lecturer kills engineering student after she befriended another man",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/tgana-lecturer-kills-engineering-student-after-she-befriended-another",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T09:21:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/forced-to-consume-pesticide-telangana-lecturer-kills-engineering-student-after-she-befriended-another-man/articleshow/134430166.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In a tragic turn of events, 20-year-old engineering student Tandhra Akshitharani was reportedly killed by her former lecturer, Jetty Naveen Kumar. Following revelations of her sexual exploitation by colleague Bommakanthi Ravikumar, she was coerced into ingesting pesticide. Attempting to disguise the act as a suicide, Kumar fled after alerting her father. Sadly, Akshitharani succumbed to her…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}