India, Dec. 26 -- A 32-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing his 26-year-old wife, whom he accused of infidelity, by setting her ablaze and attempting to set their daughter afire in the early hours of Wednesday in Hyderabad's Tilak Nagar.

K Maruti Prasad, a local police officer, said the man, K Venkatesh, a daily wager, tried to push the six-year-old daughter into the fire, but she managed to escape with minor injuries.

Prasad said Venkatesh's wife was a hotel worker. "The man [Venkatesh] went absconding soon after the incident and was arrested in the early hours of Friday. He will be produced before the court for judicial remand," Prasad said.

Venkatesh has been booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita's Section 10...