India, Aug. 19 -- The cousin of a 17-year-old girl was arrested on Monday for allegedly murdering her and stuffing her body in a suitcase in north Delhi's Burari, police said.

The 22-year-old accused allegedly planned the murder, bought the suitcase on Sunday morning and took the girl to his friend's shop, where he strangled her, they said.

The accused, a resident of Mukundpur, north Delhi, was initially picked up by police on Monday afternoon following a tip-off that he was involved in a snatching case. However, his interrogation revealed that he was accused of killing his cousin, who was from Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The suitcase containing her body was also recovered from Burari, police said.

A senior police officer said the minor, a C...