India, April 27 -- Days after a woman's decomposed body was recovered from a house in Loni's Ilaychipur locality on April 24, the Ghaziabad police arrested her 38-year-old male friend on Saturday saying that he allegedly strangled her during an altercation that ensued as he was pushing her to stay with him and also bring along her teenage daughter.

Police identified the suspect as Imran Khan, who stayed at a rented house in Ilaychipur. He is married and has two children. His family resides in Loni but he was ousted due to his bad habits.

Officers said that the suspect and the deceased (name withheld), a resident of a locality under the jurisdiction of Harsh Vihar police station, Delhi, were friends for the last three years. The deceased...