India, Aug. 30 -- Police have arrested two persons, suspected to be the prime suspects behind the murder of a 38-year-old woman, whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase onboard the Tamil Nadu Express train in Agra earlier this month.

Manik Uddin Laskar (22), a native of Assam's Cachar district, and his wife Bhagabati Majhi (21) from Kendujhar district in Odisha were apprehended from Kashimpur in Manipur's Jiribam following a multi-state hunt, police sources in Chennai said on Sunday.

The duo were nabbed by a joint team of Manipur and Tamil Nadu Police, officials in Imphal said.

"The arrested persons are being handed over to the SHO of Guduvanchery Police Station," a Manipur Police official said.

The crime came to light on Augus...