Police arrested a 38-year-old man in Maharashtra's Thane district on Wednesday for allegedly killing a woman with whom he had an extra-marital affair, an official said.
The accused, a resident of Mumbra area, and the 32-year-old victim, who was unmarried, had an affair since a long time and they fought frequently over certain issues, the official from Shil-Daighar police station said.
On Tuesday, both of them went to a lodge in Mumbra and again had a fight.
The man then allegedly strangled the woman to death, the official said.
After being alerted, police reached the spot and found the victim lying dead on a bed, he said.
The police later sent the body for postmortem and arrested the man in the early hours of Wednesday, he said.
A case was registered against the accused under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) section 103 (murder), the official said.
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