Looking to teach his live-in partner a lesson when she did not return home on time, an Andheri (East) resident strangled their five-year-old daughter to death under the influence of alcohol.

According to the police, the man suspected his partner, a bar singer, stayed out late at night with another lover, leaving him to take care of their child alone. Vipul Mehta (39) lived with his girlfriend, Nagma Shaikh, and their five-year-old daughter Piya at a second-storey flat in Sai Kripa Society in the Poonam Nagar area.