Hyderabad, Sept. 29 -- Madhapur police have arrested Srinivas Ravi Teja, the man accused of killing his friend Sharon Nikitha Topno, 29, in an OYO hotel room in Madhapur last week. He reportedly told police he killed her because she was pressuring him to marry her.

Ravi Teja, from Visakhapatnam, was taken into custody after he was discharged from King George Hospital (KGH) in Visakhapatnam, where he had been admitted following a suicide attempt.

Nikitha, a private sector employee from Visakhapatnam, and Ravi Teja checked into Room No. 304 of a hotel at Road No. 5, Siddiqui Nagar, Madhapur, around 2 pm on Monday, September 21. Police say she was killed that night.

On Tuesday morning, Ravi Teja told hotel staff that Nikitha had fallen un...