India, Nov. 5 -- A woman was allegedly tied to a chair, doused with petrol and burnt alive by her husband over suspicion of an extramarital affair in Jagatpur village of Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district on Thursday morning.

The woman's body was reportedly reduced to a skeleton in the blaze, which took fire personnel nearly one-and-a-half hours to extinguish.

According to the local villagers, the accused, identified as 35-year-old Sukhbir Singh alias Monu, fled with the couple's two children after allegedly setting his wife, identified as 30-year-old Sonam, on fire inside their house. The children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, were with him when he escaped, the villagers said.

The incident took place in Jagatpur villag...