India, Sept. 2 -- A fourth-year engineering student who had gone missing from the institute late on Monday evening was found dead under a bridge in Burla town of Odisha's Sambalpur district on Tuesday morning, police said.

Police have registered a murder case on a complaint from the student's father.

The student, Anjaneya Das, a resident of Jajpur district, was a final-year undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at the state-owned Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla. Police said he was on the phone with a woman, believed to be from Uttar Pradesh, when something appeared to have happened. Police said the woman subsequently alerted Anjaneya's friends and told them to look for him.

On Tuesday morning, his ...