India, Aug. 6 -- LUCKNOW A day after a 17-year-old BCA student was found murdered at her home in Lucknow's Para area, police on Thursday said the arrested accused confessed that he killed the teenager after suspecting she had started talking to another boy. Following allegations made by the victim's family, police also invoked rape and stringent provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act in the case.

The accused, Devansh Pathak, 22, and the victim had known each other for nearly two years. They studied together in intermediate and later enrolled in a BCA programme at a college in Lucknow. Investigators said the two were in a relationship, but had stopped speaking to each other about a week before the incide...