A 27-year-old man allegedly killed his 24-year-old live-in partner who was pregnant. He later surrendered before the police.

The incident happened on Friday evening in the Karegaon village in Maharashtra's Pune district. As per the complaint registered by the police, the man confessed to his crime after surrendering himself. "He came to the police station and demanded a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote that he is a patient of depression and killed his pregnant live-in partner by strangulating her and sought that he be executed. The man then handed over keys of the house where he lived with the woman. After reaching the house and opening its door, we found the woman lying dead on the floor," an investigating official reportedly stated. The man had been in a relationship with the woman for nearly five months. He strangled her to death following an argument regarding the abortion of the baby. "Since both of them did not have money to go for abortion, they often used to fight. They had an argument on Friday afternoon and in a fit of rage, the man strangulated her to death, locked the door from outside and surrendered before police," another official stated.

A case has been registered against the man under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. The accused has been arrested and remanded in judicial custody.