PUNE: A 25-year-old woman walked into the Sinhagad Road police station in the wee hours of Tuesday and told the on-duty policemen that she had killed her childhood friend in a rented flat at Narhe over their strained live-in relationship.Police said the woman told the officers that she had slit her 26-year-old partner’s throat with a surgical knife while he was asleep because he was not maintaining proper conjugal relationship despite their “marriage” at Alandi in August last year.Senior inspector Nandkishor Shelke, sub-inspector Sudhir Ghadge and their team rushed to Narhe and found the victim lying dead in the third-floor flat of the building. They recovered the murder weapon from the site.The man was murdered sometime between 1am and 4am on Tuesday. Later, the woman was arrested for the murder.Ghadge said, “The woman told police that after committing the murder, she tried to end her life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in the flat using an ‘odhani (a shawl-like scarf)’, but changed her mind because of her pregnancy and, instead, decided to approach the police. We have recovered the ‘odhani’, hanging from the ceiling fan, from the spot.”He said, “Our preliminary investigation has revealed that in June last year, the woman (a medical support staffer with a city hospital) had lodged a rape complaint against the deceased and the case was due for hearing on Tuesday before a city court. For the past couple of months, the man was pursuing her to withdraw the rape complaint and even threatened her on multiple occasions.”Ghadge said, “In view of the court hearing on Tuesday, the man came to the city from his native place Jat in Sangli on Monday night thinking that the woman will withdraw her complaint. He went to her flat, where both had an argument before going to sleep. Sometime later, the woman woke up and slit the victim’s throat using the surgical knife.”He said, “In May last year, the victim went to his native place for attending his brother’s wedding. One of the woman’s friends in Jat told her that the victim had got married. Disturbed over this piece of information, the woman lodged an FIR of rape with the Sinhagad Road police in June last year.”Ghadge said, “The victim was arrested in the rape case earlier, but the woman had furnished his bail. So, he was out on bail.”