India, Oct. 3 -- In a startling turn of events in Faridabad, police pulled the body of a young woman off the funeral pyre on Tuesday evening after her husband allegedly tried to cremate her in haste, raising suspicions of foul play.

Investigators said they rushed to preserve the body for an autopsy after they received a tip-off from the woman's family.

The deceased, identified as 27-year-old Gunja Devi from Vaishali district, Bihar, had been living in Ballabgarh's Subhash Colony with her husband, Deepak Kumar, 30, an employee at a private firm. The couple married four years ago.

According to investigators, who asked not to be identified, Kumar had rushed his wife's body to the cremation ground, accompanied by only a handful of people, ...