Bengaluru, Nov 30 (PTI) A 26-year-old Nepali citizen has been arrested for allegedly beating his live-in partner to death in the city, police said.

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Santhosh Dhami was arrested for killing Krishna Kumari Ammai (23) at his residence in TC Palya on Tuesday night, according to police.

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Ammai, a Nepali national, had come to Bengaluru two years ago. She worked in a salon, police said.

For the past one year, she was in a relationship with Dhami, who too is a citizen of Nepal and worked in a men's parlour, they added.

Dhami had suspicion that Ammai was in a relationship with another person as well, which enraged him, and he killed her, police claimed.

A case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Dhami.

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