India, April 12 -- A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly beating to death his live-in partner at their house in Munirka on Tuesday, police said on Friday. The man was arrested a day later and an autopsy of the woman's body indicated she was beaten to death, police said.

The victim, Lhing Janeng, 27, and the accused Jagminthang, 28, came from Manipur to Delhi and had been living together for the past year, investigators said.

A senior police officer said the control room was informed around 2pm on Tuesday about a body on the fifth floor of a residential building in Munirka, near Kranti Chowk. Police said they found the body with injury marks in some parts.

"The call was made by a woman who lived in the same building and was a fri...