LUCKNOW, Sept. 21 -- : A man allegedly slit the throat of his relative sister-in-law after she rejected his marriage proposal for the second time and dumped it in the Saryu river in Ayodhya, police said on Saturday.

The accused, Bhanu Pratap Nishad, was arrested from Ayodhya on Saturday, three days after the September 17 murder of 12th-pass Dharma Nishad, a resident of Madhaipur village in Gonda.

According to police, Bhanu had been in contact with Dharma for nearly three years and wanted to live with her. When he proposed marriage, she refused. He allegedly called her to the Saryu ghats in Ayodhya a few days later and again asked her to marry him.

Dharma had left home telling her mother that she was going to her elder sister's house. B...