18-Year-Old Woman Killed In UP, Body Chopped, Dumped In Sugarcane Field

The woman had gone missing on June 6 and her family was informed on Saturday that her body was found in the sugarcane field.

An 18-year-old woman was murdered and her body chopped off before being dumped in a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur, police said on Sunday.

Police have arrested in this connection a man, identified as Santosh Verma, who is in his late 20s. The woman's family members have alleged rape before murder, police said.

The woman had gone missing on June 6 and her family was informed on Saturday that her body was found in the sugarcane field in a decomposed condition.

Her father identified her from slippers and clothes. The woman's family claimed that acid was poured on the body to hide her identity.