India, Oct. 27 -- A 40-year-old priest has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife, and staging it as a suicide in northwest Delhi's Tri Nagar on Sunday, police said.

The suspect allegedly used a scarf to hang the body from the fan while his 11-year-old daughter was asleep in the same room.

The priest then called the cops, claiming the woman hanged herself while he was asleep, police said.

A police officer said: "The woman was found lying on the floor. The marks on the neck were not from the scarf. It was very suspicious that the woman killed herself while two of their family members were sleeping in the same room."

He added that the suspect, Dinesh Sharma, was questioned, and later confessed that he had killed the woman in the k...