Thane, March 30 A man was arrested in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, for allegedly murdering a woman in the Mira Road area of Thane district, a police official said on Monday.
Ashish Madan Meshram (37), originally from West Bengal, was apprehended by the Crime Branch Unit 1 of the Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police, he said.
"On March 25, he attacked the woman with a sharp object after she resisted his attempts to sexually assault her. The woman was alone in her house at the time. Her relatives had gone out to work. The accused also had a previous dispute with the woman's son," the official said.
"Following the registration of a case, police teams checked CCTV footage and tracked the location of his mobile phone. It was found that he fled to neighboring Mumbai, then travelled to Hyderabad, and further to Visakhapatnam, from where he was apprehended on March 27," the official added.
The Mira Road police is continuing the investigation, he said.