Meerut, Nov. 5 -- Forty-eight days after a woman's body was found wrapped in a burqa near the Ganga canal in Meerut, police have solved the murder mystery. The deceased was identified as Naima Yasmin Saikia, a resident of Charthawal in Muzaffarnagar, who was allegedly killed by her husband, Mohd Shahzad, an imam of a mosque, with the help of his friend, Nadeem Ahmed. Both men have been arrested.

According to the police, Shahzad, who was already married and had three children, had been living separately with Naima in a rented house in Meerut. His first wife and children lived in another house in the same city. When Naima discovered that Shahzad was already married, she confronted him and demanded answers. Annoyed by her opposition and res...