Police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his tenement's 65-year-old woman owner in Maharashtra's Thane city to grab her funds, an official said on Thursday.

The victim, identified as Jijabai Kedar, used to live alone in a house in the chawl (tenement) which she owned in Wagle Estate area. She had rented out some of the rooms there, inspector (crime) Sunil Shinde from Shreenagar police station said. The woman's relatives approached police on Wednesday saying she was not responding to their calls.