LUCKNOW, May 5 -- A 24-year-old contractual municipal employee was arrested for allegedly killing a retired Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) official's wife in Bareilly district after she refused to give him a share in her property valued at around Rs.20 crore, police said on Tuesday.

Manush Pareek, additional superintendent of police (City), Bareilly, said the victim, Sharda Yadav, 65, went missing on May 2 after she did not return home. Her husband, Gajraj Singh, 70, a retired LIU sub-inspector, lodged a missing person's FIR at Subhash Nagar police station the same day.

Police said CCTV footage showed the accused, Varun Parashari, who was known to the family and treated as an adopted son, taking Yadav in his car. He was detained on Monda...