Rohtak, March 4 -- Rohtak police on Monday cracked the murder of Himani Narwal, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase near the Sampla bus stand on the Rohtak-Delhi highway, with the arrest of a man who had befriended the 22-year-old Congress worker around one-and-half years ago.

According to police, the accused, identified as Sachin Kumar alias Dhillu, strangled Himani to death with the wire of a mobile phone charger following an altercation.

Sachin, 30, a resident of Khairpur village in Jhajjar, was arrested following an investigation led by a special investigation team (SIT), police said. The accused, who is married and has two children, owns a mobile repair shop at Kanonda village in Jhajjar. He was produced before a local court...