Ludhiana, June 24 -- A 24-year-old man was arrested by Division Number 3 police on Monday for allegedly murdering his 20-year-old live-in partner in Fatehganj Mohalla, Ludhiana.

Sushil Kumar was arrested from Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, nearly two weeks after the murder.

During police interrogation, he confessed strangling the woman to death in a fit of rage due to her continued contact with her estranged husband Rahul and another man, police said.

The crime was uncovered on June 10, when local residents reported a foul odour emanating from the couple's rented accommodation. The landlord, Gurwinder Kaur, and the woman's brother, Shiva, broke open the door and found her partially decomposed body hidden under a pile of clo...