At the Anti-Extortion Cell where Nikhil’s parents were present yesterday afternoon along with their son, Narendra said he wished Nikhil had expressed his desire to pursue a writing career instead of engineering.

“I and my wife are in great shock after we came to know the truth and since then we have been cursing ourselves,” Narendra said. “We should have understood our son at the time of taking the decision to send him to an engineering college.”u00a0Narendra said knowing that Nikhil was an introvert, he should have encouraged him to tell his parents what he really wanted.