India, Feb. 15 -- A woman was allegedly strangled by her married lover and her body dumped inside a septic tank in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, police said, after her remains were recovered from an iron box submerged in water on an empty plot.

The body was discovered on Thursday evening in a locality under the Nishatpura police station limits after children playing nearby complained of a foul smell from a tank. Residents spotted an iron box floating inside and alerted the police, news agency ANI reported.

"The police received information that a dead body was seen lying in a tank on an empty constructed plot in a Basti under Nishatpura police station. During the investigation, we removed a tin box from the water, from which the body of a wom...