The Kurar Police arrested a 24-year-old man, a Mankhurd resident, for allegedly killing his girlfriend at her residence, the police said on Thursday. According to the police, the accused identified as Akhilesh Gautam was planning to get married with his girlfriend, Manisha Jaiswar, 27 but allegedly killed her after he found out about her relationship with another man.

The police said, Manisha, a resident of Kurar was found murdered at her house with her throat slit. A team led by API Pankaj Wankhede began to investigate the case and found that the woman had been having long phone calls on two numbers. One of the suspect Suresh Gautam, a relative of Manisha was picked up for questioning but his role in the crime was ruled out, later an another man, whose number found in the call records was also taken as a suspect but before questioning the team came across a number that was saved as 'Soni Bhabhi' in Manisha's phone, when the officials asked Manisha's father about Soni Bhabhi, he said that she was a relative.