Greater Noida, April 30 -- A 38-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly strangling his 14-year-old stepdaughter to death and dumping her body in a forested area of Greater Noida, police said on Wednesday, adding that allegations that he had previously sexually assaulted the minor girl surfaced during a preliminary investigation.

Police said the incident took place on April 20 allegedly after the man, enraged that the minor girl had accused him the sexual abuse, took her to an under-construction house, where he strangled her with a rope. He then packed her body in a sack, drove it 15 km away, and dumped the body in some bushes near the Yamuna Pushta Road, said a senior police officer aware of the investigation.

The accused the...