KANPUR/MEERUT, June 4 -- A 21-year-old woman from Unnao who had accused a nursing home owner of sexual exploitation was allegedly abducted and shot dead within 48 hours of lodging the complaint, with her body dumped nearly 450 km away in Bulandshahr, police said on Wednesday.

The case took a dramatic turn after investigators linked the missing woman to an unidentified body that had already been cremated as unclaimed, using a nose ring preserved during the post-mortem process.

One of the two accused has confessed to the crime, while the other surrendered before police in Kanpur on Wednesday, officials said.

The woman, a BA final-year student from Unnao who was also enrolled in a police sub-inspector coaching institute in Kanpur, had lod...