LUCKNOW, March 5 -- A 25-year-old woman farmer leader, missing for nearly two weeks, was found murdered in a forest in Uttar Pradesh's Shravasti district on Tuesday. Police recovered only parts of her burnt skeleton and arrested her alleged lover, a history-sheeter, who allegedly confessed to strangling her and hiding the body in the forest.

The victim, Anchal Mishra, also known as Anti Mishra, was the district president of the women's wing of Bharatiya Kisan Union Arajnaitik (BKUA). She left her home in Bansgarhi Fattepur Bangai village on February 17, telling her family she was heading to a farmers' union meeting in Bhinga. Her husband, Santosh Mishra, filed a missing person complaint at Malhipur police station on February 19 after she...