A 24-year-old Indian national was on Thursday charged in connection with the murder of a post-graduate student from Andhra Pradesh, who was found dead at her private accommodation in a Birmingham suburb.
The man, whose surname is said to be Nalloori, was arrested on Wednesday evening and will appear before the Birmingham Magistrates Court on Friday morning.
The West Midlands Police told PTI that the woman has been identified as Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala from Vijaywada, who was in the UK on a study visa, attending a postgraduate course in health sciences at the University of Wolverhampton.
A post mortem examination has been conducted, which established that she died as a result of head injuries.
The police have not released any further details about Tuesday's incident, but said forensic tests were carried out at the premises and nearby houses.
This is the second incident of murder involving an Indian in the Birmingham area in the last three years.
In November 2005, Anurag Johri, a Lucknow-born Indian PhD student at the University of Central England, Birmingham, battered his wife, Deepti Anurag, 29, to death because she had left him. He is currently serving a life term in a British jail.
The sensational murder of Deepti was dubbed a 'Google murder' because Johri, 34, did an internet search on how to kill with a baseball bat before killing her.