India, Feb. 3 -- A 32-year-old woman allegedly choked a man to death in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly as she was tired of being blackmailed and repeatedly sexually abused by him.

The accused is a resident of Ghur Samsapur village under Bhojipura police station limits.

The woman told the police that the deceased Iqbal, a zari-zardozi artisan, frequently visited houses in her village to sell clothes, during which she got acquainted with him.

In her statement, the accused said at one point, she and Iqbal exchanged mobile numbers and started talking to each other.

"One day, Iqbal called me to his home on the pretext of selling clothes and tried to get intimate with me. I warned him that I would tell my husband. But Iqbal said that he had my ca...