India, May 5 -- A 30-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly beating up a 40-year-old man to death in Khoda and dumping his body outside a Noida hospital last week on suspicion of theft, officials said on Monday.

Police identified the suspect as a 30-year-old resident of Khoda area, and the deceased as a resident of Mahalaxmi Garden in Khoda.

According to police, the suspect fled after dumping the body outside the Child PGI Hospital in Sector 30 in the early hours of April 27. An FIR was lodged by the Noida police under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1) (murder) and 238a (destroying evidence) after they saw the body there.

"The body was sent to the Sector 94 mortuary and an investigation was launched. CCTV footage l...