Cops say the scholar accused of murdering girl from Manipur used items to fan his sexual fantasies

It couldn't get murkier than this. Pushpam Sinha, the PhD scholar of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, arrested for murdering and trying to rape a teenaged girl from Manipur, was not a spurned lover acting on impulse. It seems he was a sex maniac who fanned his perversion with pornographic material that cops recovered from his house.

Cops from the Vasant Vihar police station, who arrested the 34-year-old bachelor accused of killing and burning his neighbour Ramchanphy Hongray, recovered pornographic CDs and DVDs along with women's clothes, which he claimed to have bought for his female friends. Sources in the police team that arrested him said they recovered lingerie and bangles, which they suspect Sinha used to indulge in his sexual fantasies.

"We recovered porn DVDs and magazines from his house. Apart from women's clothes and lingerie, he also had bangles. He did not stay with any woman. He told us he had bought these items as gifts for his friends but his claims are frivolous," said a senior police official investigating the case.u00a0

Hell Hole:u00a0 The room from where the body of Ramchanphy Hongry was found; her killer Pushpam Sinha in police custody PICS/IMTIYAZ KHAN