Greater Noida, Jan. 6 -- The 22-year-old woman accused of murdering her 47-year-old live-in partner at a high-rise in Greater Noida's Sector 150 told police during interrogation that the trigger of the fatal argument was a "wet towel", which escalated after the victim allegedly taunted her about coming from a "poor nation", investigators familiar with the case said on Monday.

The accused, identified as Lum Jianna Pamai, from Khoupum in Manipur, was questioned by police after being taken into custody and later produced before a chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court in Gautam Budh Nagar, which remanded her to 14 days of judicial custody.

The deceased has been identified as Yuh Duck-Hee, a South Korean national from Cheongju-si, who had be...