AGRA, Aug. 5 -- The search for the body of an 18-year-old Delhi woman continued in the Chambal river on Wednesday, days after police alleged her father and brother-in-law strangled her to death because she was four months pregnant out of wedlock. Investigators said the accused allegedly staged the crime as a suicide by posing as they performed her last rites on the riverbank before allowing the body to drift away and returning to Delhi claiming she had died by suicide.

The case pertains to Delhi's Tigri police station limits, where the victim's family had been living after moving from Basoni village in Agra district several years ago. Police said the victim's father, who was involved in the tent and wedding services business in Delhi, wa...