MEERUT, May 22 -- Police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of 25-year-old nurse Anjali Sharma, whose body was allegedly dumped outside the emergency ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district on Thursday, police said on Friday.

Police identified the arrested accused as Sajida. Investigators said Sajida helped her brother, Sufiyan, 28, a ward attendant at the same hospital, strangle Anjali to death and later transported the body in an e-rickshaw before abandoning it outside the emergency gate of the hospital where the victim herself worked as a nurse.

Police said Sufiyan, a resident of Lisari Gate, remains absconding and multiple teams have been formed to arrest him. According to investigators, Anjali ...