India, Nov. 14 -- A 32-year-old man from Noida was arrested on Friday after a headless woman's body, with her hands severed at the wrists, was found in a drain in Sector 108 on November 6, police said, adding that her remaining body parts were later recovered from Ghaziabad.

Police were alerted last week that the headless body of an unidentified woman had been found in an 8-foot drain along the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, around a kilometre away from the Noida Police Commissionerate. "Her hands had been chopped off at the wrists, and the body was naked," a senior police officer said.

The police identified the woman as Preeti, a 33-year-old resident of Noida's Sector 49.

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