India, June 19 -- Police arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly strangling to death the three-year-old son of a woman after she refused his proposal to marry him, officials said on Thursday.

The incident occurred in Karegaon village in Shirur taluka on the evening of June 17. The accused is identified Devanshu Aditya Sahu.

According to the police, the minor's mother, Rani Pappu Kaul, a native of Madhya Pradesh, had come to the Ranjangaon MIDC area for work and was living in Karegaon with her son and Sahu. The child was from her previous marriage.

Pune rural superintendent of police Sandeep Singh Gill said Sahu informed the woman's workplace on June 17 that her son had died.

"Rani had gone to work when the incident occurred. Around 6...