'I sleep better now': Man held in Noida beheading

A 32-year-old man has confessed to the beheading murder of a woman whose body was found without hands in a drain in Noida last week.

- Arun Singh

The man, who is married, was arrested on Friday, and said he had Killed the victim, with whom he was in a relationship, for multiple reasons, including that she was pressuring him to leave his wife and get married to her and asking for money she had loaned to him.

The accused was identified as Monu Solanki, who hails from Etah. He is a resident of Barola in Sector 49, where he lives with his wife and three children. Police narrowed down on himasa suspect by combing through CCTV footage from the area where the body was found and tracking down the vehicles in the area at the time when the body was dumped, which led them to Solanki.

The victim has been identified as Preeti, 32, from West Bengal, who had been living in Noida since 2023 with her two children, a 5-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. The victim and Solanki were neighbours, living just 500m from each other.