The accused in the murder case of Neha Hiremath, daughter of Niranjan Hiremath, a Congress councilor in the Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Corporation, has been sent to a 6-day Criminal Investigation Department (CID) custody. Neha, 21, was stabbed to death on April 18 by her former classmate, Fayaz Khodunaik, on the campus of KLE Technological University in Hubballi Dharwad, where she was a first-year MCA student. The police arrested Fayaz within hours of the incident and produced him before a magistrate, who initially sent him to 14-day judicial custody. The CID, however, took Fayaz’s custody on Wednesday and was granted a 6-day custody. While police investigation suggests Neha and Fayaz were in a relationship, her family members have said that he was pestering her and that she had rejected his marriage proposal.