Mumbai Police Tuesday arrested a man for murdering his 35-year-old girlfriend in a room of a hotel in Navi Mumbai. Police said that the accused, Shoeb Sheikh, allegedly strangled her.

The police had received information that Sheikh, 24, had committed an offence and was planning to flee to his hometown. Based on a tip-off, the Mumbai police apprehended the accused from his house in the western suburb of Mumbai’s Saki Naka in the early hours of the day before he could flee to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh, a Mumbai Police official said.