India, Nov. 9 -- Police in London have charged a 31-year-old Indian-origin man with murdering a 26-year-old Indian-origin woman who was found with gunshot injuries at a house in west London last week. The Metropolitan Police said on Monday that the man, Rajat Jaswel, had been arrested shortly after the woman was found and had since been charged with murder as well as a firearms offence.

The force identified the dead woman as Navneet Kaur, who was reported to be from Punjab. According to the account given by the police, officers went to a property in Chertsey Road in the Hounslow area of west London on the afternoon of November 4 in order to carry out a welfare check, and while there they found her with gunshot wounds.

She was pronounced...