India, April 19 -- A 45-year-old woman was murdered and her body dumped in a drain in a field on the outskirts of Kabulpur village near Sector 58 of Faridabad, police said on Saturday. One of the two accused has been arrested, while the prime accused remains absconding.

Police said the woman went missing on Wednesday morning after leaving home to pay an electricity bill. Her family later found her clothes, including a mangalsutra, near the drain on Friday and began searching the area between 10am and 11am. They spotted a leg in the water and alerted the police control room by 11.30am.

The body was pulled out and identified by the family. Inspector Vinod Kumar Yadav, station house officer of Sector-58 police station, said the autopsy was...