According to investigation, that evening, after the woman's mother had gone out, Bhanage had knocked on the door and told the woman that some squirrels has entered her house from the balcony and he wanted to catch them. She allowed him in but when she went into the kitchen, he locked the main door and tried to force himself on her. She pushed him off and shouted loudly for help, but he asphyxiated her with a pillow.

Ramnagar police station PI N Jadhav said, "We checked CCTV footage and found the man's behaviour suspicious. When we questioned him, he confessed to the murder."

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A friend of the woman said that she had come to the city for her studies and was living here with her mother, while the rest of her family lives in Bangalore. "She had wanted to do MSc and her family was very keen that she study further. We all are shocked."

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