Meerut, Dec. 17 -- A gruesome instance of rape and murder of a woman has surfaced with the discovery of her skeletal remains in a suitcase in a sugarcane field near National Highway-9 in Hapur district on December 1, police said.

The victim was later identified as a resident of Simdega district in Jharkhand. Police said the woman was brought to Delhi to work as a househelp by one Ankit Kumar from the Simbhawali area of Hapur and his wife Kalista alias Kali from Simdega.

In Delhi, she was allegedly raped by Ankit and, later, beaten to death upon resisting and threatening him with a police complaint on August 27. Two days later, her body, stuffed in the suitcase, was discarded by the field. Both husband and wife were arrested in Hapur's P...