An IIT-Delhi student was arrested here from the college campus for allegedly blackmailing a girl of IIT Kanpur.

The Kanpur police arrested the accused, Surendra Bhukhiya, on Thursday. He was later taken to Kanpur for prosecution.

“Surendra Bhukhiya, a third-year student of textile engineering at IIT-Delhi, was nabbed for attempting to kidnap the girl and pressurising her to marry him,” Shailendra Lal of Kanpur police said.

The girl, a first-year B.Tech student of IIT Kan-pur, had filed an FIR agai-nst Bhukhiya in Kalya-npur police station on November 26, stating that the boy was threatening to misuse her pictures if she refused to marry him, the police said.

The police said the girl had lost her mobile phone and purse in November, which was found by Bhu-khiya, who hails from Wa-rangal. He asked her to meet him to return the phone and, on this pretext, abducted her.

He took her to a temple and attempted to force her to marry him, but she managed to escape. Following this, Bhukhiya threatened to misuse her photographs found on her phone.