The incident occurred last night at Sadarpur village here.
The man strangulated his daughter, a Class 12 student, and later called the police and surrendered before them, Superintendent of Police (City) Arun Kumar Singh said.
He claimed that his daughter was having an affair and yesterday when she was talking to a boy on the phone, he objected to it, the officer said.
In a fit of rage, he strangulated her. The body has been sent for post-mortem and a case has been registered, the SP said.