Noida, Nov. 15 -- A 32-year-old man has confessed to the beheading murder of a woman whose body was found without hands in a drain in Noida last week. The man, who is married, was arrested on Friday, and said he had killed the victim, with whom he was in a relationship, for multiple reasons, including that she was pressuring him to leave his wife and get married to her and asking for money she had loaned to him. The accused was identified as Monu Solanki, who hails from Etah. He is a resident of Barola in Sector 49, where he lives with his wife and three children. Police narrowed down on him as a suspect by combing through CCTV footage from the area where the body was found and tracking down the vehicles in the area at the time when the body was dumped, which led them to Solanki. The victim has been identified as Preeti, 32, from West Bengal, who had been living in Noida since 2023 with her two children, a 5-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. The victim and Solanki were neighbours, living just 500m from each other. Solanki was arrested from Barola, Noida. He told police that he felt "stuck" between his wife and the victim, and he had slipped into depression. "Now, I am sleeping well," he said, adding that he felt "no remorse". He was produced before the court on Friday, and later sent to jail. On November 6, the victim's body was found floating in a drain next to an open ground of an upscale high-rise and Sector 108 park, along the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. She was not wearing clothes, and had her hands chopped off from the wrists. At least 40 teams were formed to crack the case and sent to Delhi, Western UP, and surrounding districts to check missing persons complaints for women, said Rajeev Narayan Mishra, additional deputy commissioner of police, Gautam Budh Nagar (law and order). To zero in on the suspect, police scanned CCTV footage from the area where the body was dumped. "We scanned nearly 55,000 vehicles which entered into the district from all border areas. Later, we came down to hundreds of vehicles and then 44 vehicles were zeroed in at last," said Mishra. "After contacting each vehicle owner's drivers, a bus which visited the spot had become the point of our investigation." Initially, Mishra said, when Solanki was contacted, he tried to mislead the police. But they later learnt of his relationship with a next-door neighbour who had gone missing. The police then visited the children of the missing woman and shared photos of the toe rings with them. They confirmed the rings belonged to their mother, confirming the victim's identity. Noida deputy commissioner of police Yamuna Prasad said that on November 5, at 3pm, Solanki, with the intention of killing the victim, asked to come out with him. Around 8:30pm, after spending hours together and visiting a number of places, they reached close to the site where the body was dumped....