Srinagar, Jan. 23 -- A trust turned fatal in Srinagar's Nowshera area on Thursday after a 65-year-old woman was brutally murdered inside her home, allegedly by her domestic help. The incident triggered a police manhunt that culminated in the accused's arrest in South Kashmir.

The deceased has been identified as Rashida Begum (65), wife of Lateef Ahmad Gangoo of Mud Bagh, Nowshera. According to her family, she was first struck on the head with a cricket bat and then killed with a sharp-edged weapon, believed to be a knife.

The accused, aged around 20 and hailing from Orissa, was employed as a domestic help at the victim's residence. After committing the crime, he fled the scene, taking along the deceased's mobile phone.

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