India, March 5 -- Police in Uttar Pradesh's Shravasti recovered parts of a 25-year-old woman farmer leader's body in a forest on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after she went missing, investigators said on Thursday.

A police officer said Anchal Mishra, a mother of two, was the district president of the women's wing of a non-political farmers' union. She went missing on February 17 after leaving home to attend a meeting in Bhinga. Her husband, Santosh Mishra, lodged a missing persons complaint on February 19.

The investigators traced the last location of her mobile phone to the forest in the Kakardari range and found her skull, jawbone, and spine. Her clothes and shoes were discovered some distance away.

Police superintendent Rahul Bhati sai...