Guwahati, July 15 -- Assam police arrested a 38-year-old woman for allegedly murdering her husband and burying the body inside their house premises at Pandu area in Guwahati city, officials said on Monday.

The shocking incident took place at Joymoti Nagar area of Pandu in the state. According to the police, the victim, Sabial Rahman was a scrap dealer was murdered by his wife, Rahima Khatun, 38, on June 26. A senior police official said that, after June 26 she told her acquaintance that her husband had gone to Kerala for work, but the victim's brother reached the police on July 12 and approached the police to register a complaint about Sabial Rahman being missing.

"On July 13, a woman named Rahima Khatun came to Jalukbari police station...