Haveri, Sept. 14 -- Karnataka Police arrested a woman and her lover on Sunday for the alleged murder of the woman's four-year-old daughter.

The mother reportedly suffocated her daughter to death and burned her body near the Tunga Upper River Project canal in Kuragunda village, Haveri taluk.

Later, the local residents alerted the police, and officials from the Guttala police station visited the scene and cremated the girl as an unidentified body.

According to Karnataka Police, relatives accused the woman and her lover of killing her daughter because the child's presence interfered with their illicit relationship. The child lived with her mother, who was in the process of divorcing her husband of 17 years.

Hence, the case came to light ...