ghaziabad a 30yearold man who allegedly beat up his livein partner and set her ablaze in a fit of rage because she was pressurising him to marry her was arrested in loni on tuesday after a oneandahalf year chase by the police dhanraj sharma alias monu who belonged to baghpat and lived in delhi was booked under sections 302 punishment for murder and 323 punishment for voluntarily causing hurt of the ipcpolice said dhanraj met the woman seema 30 while the two of them were working for the same company in ghaziabad in 2018 recently divorced seema was living with her son who is now 4 years old in loni at the time by the end of the year seema and dhanraj decided to move in together in april 2019 the couple had to start living separately because of objections from seemas family members police said adding that she wanted dhanraj to marry her according to the police dhanraj eventually lost his temper that seema kept pressuring him about marriage and on july 17 he thrashed her before pouring diesel on her and setting her ablaze at her rented house in loni border at the time of the incident the child was at his uncles house during interrogation dhanraj said that he was happy living with seema but she continuously forced him to marry in july both of them argued about marriage after which he beat her up badly set her on fire and fled from the spot said iraj raja sp rural ghaziabad seema died of burn injuries and her body was found three days later after her brother sanjay singh alerted the police since seemas death sanjay has been taking care of his nephew the sp told toi that initially police suspected it may be a case of dowry death connected to seemas former husband because her family members had raised the allegations but a year after her death they concluded that the former husband a resident of delhi had an alibi and never met her after their divorce in early 2018police started a fresh investigation and learnt that the deceased was in a relationship with dhanraj they detained dhanraj and questioned him in december 2020 but he didnt turn up the next day he left the city and kept moving between states delhi haryana and up sp raja saidyogendra singh sho at the loni border police station said the accused also kept changing his jobs his mobile numbers and was only intermittently in touch with his family members in baghpat dhanraj told police that he changed his hideout after every two months he lived with his friends in delhi haryana lucknow etc while in baghpat he worked at a restaurant and in faridabad he worked at a mobile store as well the sho said police got a tipoff this week that dhanraj was planning to travel from baghpat to delhi on a bus on tuesday a heavy police force was deployed cops