The police on Thursday said that a man from Navi Mumbai allegedly burnt his 32-year-old wife to death over suspicion of having an extra-marital affair and tried to pass it off as a suicide, reported news agency PTI.

However, his lies were nailed as the couple's seven-year-old daughter, who apparently witnessed the incident, told the police that her father had set her mother on fire, they said, reported PTI.

The incident took place in the early hours of August 25 at Pagotegaon in Uran area and the accused, aged 35, was arrested the next day, they said.