India, March 15 -- A 23 year-old woman from Kodagu district was allegedly strangled to death by her live-in partner following a heated argument at their rented house in the eastern part of the city late Friday night. Police have arrested the accused and registered a murder case.

The accused has been identified as Kakera Yashwanth Ayyappa (29), a native of T. Shettigeri village near Ponnampet. The victim, Ranjitha (23), was from Bolluru village in the same region. According to police, the couple had been living together in a rented single-bedroom house near Kodathi for the past two months.

Ayyappa was working as a supervisor at a dry fruits shop in Bengaluru, while Ranjitha had recently secured a job as a salesgirl at DMart. Investigatio...