India, June 6 -- A 37-year-old man was arrested from the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway on Thursday night for allegedly strangling his wife in a fit of rage over an affair suspicion in Manesar, alerting the cops and faking it as a suicide, police said on Friday.

The suspect, hailing from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, lived with her wife, 36, in a rented accommodation in Bas Hariya village in Manesar, and both worked at different companies in IMT Manesar.

Around midnight on Wednesday, when the suspect returned home from his night shift at the factory, he spotted his wife talking to someone over the phone, and when he tried to check her phone, she resisted, the officer said.

An argument ensued between the couple, which soon turned violent,...