India, June 30 -- A 32-year-old woman and her 21-year-old sister were arrested on Monday for allegedly murdering a 38-year-old man in Ghaziabad's Loni on June 23 and attempting to pass off the killing as a suicide, police said.

Investigators said the deceased was the woman's live-in partner and that she allegedly killed him with the help of her younger sister because she suspected he had "bad intentions" towards her 13-year-old daughter.

The two women were arrested from Tronica City, police said.

Assistant commissioner of police (Loni) Siddharth Gautam said the woman, a native of Bulandshahr, had been living with the deceased in Loni for the past several months. The man was married, but his wife and children lived separately in Tronica...