A man was booked for allegedly setting ablaze his live-in partner after a quarrel in Thane's Wagle Estate area, a police official said on Saturday, reported PTI.

As per the PTI report, the 32-year-old woman is recuperating in a hospital, while senior inspector Shivaji Gaware of the Wagle Estate police station said that a FIR was registered under Section 109(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for an act committed with the knowledge that it could cause death.