PULWAMA, Nov. 12 -- Police have arrested the main accused in the murder of a 70-year-old woman whose body was found inside her residence at Parigam village in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on October 19.
The accused has been identified as Imran Bashir Mir, son of Bashir Ahmad Mir, a resident of Parigam, a police officer said.
He was arrested in connection with FIR No. 211/26 registered at Police Station Pulwama under Section 103(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the officer said.
The case pertains to the killing of Jana Begum, wife of late Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, whose body was found inside her house with her throat slit on the morning of October 19.
According to police, the incident occurred around 5 am when unidentified assailant...