hyderabad police are yet to trace shiva kumar a student of osmania university at whose house in chatrinaka his girlfriend p aruna was found dead on monday the body of aruna 24 was found hanging from the ceiling by shiva kumars parents when they returned home from their native place in siddipet on monday aruna was an m ed student from malla reddy college in medak police suspect she was strangled to death with a stole her body was found in a highly decomposed state shiva who has done ma english from ou is currently pursuing a masters degree in telugu at the universitys main campus and a boarder in the boys hostel the postmortem conducted on tuesday indicated that the victim was three months pregnant and the murder may have taken place three days ago police said based on inputs from the relatives of the deceased police said aruna had developed a relationship with shiva kumar whom she met while pursuing b ed course at a private college in ramanthapur last year a month ago she had reportedly informed her family that she was being pursued by shiva kumar and was not happy about it police officials suspect that kumar may have invited her to his parents house two or three days ago on the pretext of discussing their relationship after an altercation the suspect may have murdered her and fled the spot a case has been booked under section 302 of ipc murder and the cops are on the lookout for him meanwhile students of osmania university staged a dharna at the mortuary of osmania general hospital demanding better protection for women on campus police handed over the body to the victims family who took it to their native place in nalgonda to perform the final rites at the arts college on ou campus over 300 protesters gathered to demand swift action in the case ou student leaders also called for a college bandh on wednesday to protest arunas death