Australian police have arrested the fugitive husband of Manpreet Kaur, found dead with her throat cut in her western Sydney home, from a Melbourne bus station, Australian media reported.
Police had launched a massive manhunt for 23-year-old Chamanjot Singh, who was last seen leaving the couple's Westmead home on Tuesday night.
They discovered the body of his 29-year-old Indian-born wife as they checked reports of a domestic dispute at the Houison Street home late on Tuesday.
Moments before Manpreet Kaur was allegedly murdered, a neighbour, Jatinder Singh, heard her crying out.
Within seconds her cries took on a greater intensity, and the plea was now directed at him, he said. ''She was calling … 'save me, save me' to me in Punjabi,'' Singh, 27, said.
Minutes later 29-year-old Manpreet was dying, lying in a pool of her own blood. Drawn by her calls, Singh and his wife had run to his neighbour's door just before midnight on Tuesday, but they found it locked.
The couple called triple zero and emergency services arrived soon afterwards, but officers were unable to save Manpreet Kaur. NSW Police originally thought Chamanjot Singh was still in the Sydney area, but might travel interstate.
''A 23-year-old man was arrested this afternoon as he was alighting from a bus at Melbourne's Spencer Street Station by Victoria Police,'' police said in a statement last night.''
It is expected he will be formally charged with murder prior to his extradition hearing.
"That hearing, and the expected murder charges, were not expected to be laid until early next week, a police spokeswoman said this morning.Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford thanked the public and the media for their assistance in finding the man, police said.
Manpreet Kaur and her husband, both from Punjab, had moved to Australia this year.
She had arrived in February and he had followed in May. She had been studying while he had worked a series of manual jobs, including installing home insulation for a western Sydney company. It was while working that job that he met Jatinder Singh, who later helped him move from a home in Seven Hills to Westmead.
Manpreet Kaur's father Baldev Singh is a resident of Shimlapuri in Ludhiana. She had gone to Australia to study business management. There she met Chamanjot and both of them fell in love.
Manpreet's father alleged that the in-laws started to harass her for dowry soon after marriage. They also pressurized her family to call Chamanjot, who was later called on spouse visa by Manpreet to Australia in May.
