Jaipur Police have arrested a 42-year-old man in the city's Pratap Nagar area who allegedly bludgeoned his partner to death with an iron rod following a quarrel on Wednesday, keeping the body at home for two days before reporting the incident to police on Friday morning, according to reports published on Saturday. The man allegedly fled after calling police but was traced through his mobile phone and found hiding in a nearby lane, police said.

Source: Times of India via Visit in Rajasthan

ACP Deepak Khandelwal said the deceased, Lakshmi Regar, 38, had been living with the accused, Pradeep Kumar, for around five years. Police said they are yet to ascertain the couple's exact marital status. Kumar, a resident of Ajmer, worked as a painter, while Regar worked alongside him as a construction labourer. A police team reached the couple's rented flat in a multi-storey apartment building and found the body on the floor, with the couple's three young children beside it; a preliminary examination indicated she died on Wednesday.

Source: Times of India via Visit in Rajasthan

Accused called police, then fled, police say

Investigators said Kumar called the city police control room on Friday and confessed to killing his partner, saying they had quarrelled before he struck her on the head with an iron rod. Officers from Pratap Nagar police station reached the Dwarkapuri Apartments flat after the call and found Regar's body inside a room on the sixth floor, Newsd reported, citing Sanganer ACP Deepak Kumar Khandelwal.

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A Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team visited the apartment and collected evidence, and Regar's body was taken to the mortuary at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital for a post-mortem examination, Newsd reported. Police said they are questioning the accused and examining the evidence to establish the full sequence of events. The allegations are yet to be tested in court.