India, Nov. 19 -- A 36-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly strangling and assaulting his live-in partner to death in their rented accommodation in south Delhi's Jonapur village last week.

Police said the man suspected the 35-year-old woman of having an affair so last week Wednesday, he first strangled her, then thrashed her with a broom and a stick until she stopped responding. The woman's decomposed body was found on Saturday, almost three days after the murder.

While Rajkumar alias Raju is from Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad, he works as a taxi driver in the city and the woman was from Kolkata. He allegedly locked the house from outside after the crime and surrendered the taxi to his employer two days later before fleeing fro...