India, Nov. 23 -- Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old man in a three-state operation for the murder of a 40-year-old woman whose body was found without clothes near Adarsh Nagar railway station on Sunday.

Police said the accused, identified as Salman, told investigators he strangled and assaulted the woman after she resisted his attempt to rape her.

The case was reported when passersby spotted the woman's body lying in dense shrubbery near the railway tracks. Police said the body bore multiple injury marks, and a pair of men's and women's slippers were recovered from the spot, indicating a struggle. Mahendra Park police registered a murder case and formed several teams to identify the woman and track suspects.

Investigators ...