India, Feb. 4 -- A 17-year-old boy from Ghaziabad has been apprehended for the murder of a 39-year-old Indian Railways technician, whose disfigured body was found on Monday in a rented room in north Delhi's Subzi Mandi railway colony eight days after he was reported missing, police said on Tuesday.

During interrogation, the accused told investigators that he killed the man after the latter tried to sexually assault him.

The semi-naked and partially decomposed body of the victim, who had been missing since January 25, was discovered on Monday with multiple stab wounds to his neck and chest and his face disfigured beyond recognition, investigators aware of the case details said.

According to police, the teenager told them that he met the...