The Railway Crime Branch of Mumbai has arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly murdered his same-sex live-in partner fearing that the latter would expose his sexual orientation to the others. The arrested person has been identified as Salim Ali Ansari, 28, who works in a dairy at Malad and is a native of Sonbhadra village in Uttar Pradesh (UP), according to DNA.

According to the Commissioner of Police, Railway, Niket Kaushik, on August 26, the body of a 45-year-old man was found near the tracks between Malad and Goregaon railway stations. The Borivali Railway Police had then registered a case of murder against an unknown person and began an investigation.