India, Oct. 19 -- The police have arrested a West Bengal native for allegedly murdering his wife and burying her body near an under-construction house in Kerala's Ayarkunnam.

The accused, identified as Soni SK, 31 years old, from Dharapara in Murshidabad district, was working as a construction labourer in Ayarkunnam. He was taken into custody from a railway station in Ernakulam while allegedly fleeing to his hometown.

A Bengal man plotted his wife's murder in a Drishyam-like plot, allegedly killing his 28-year-old wife, Alpana Khathoon, and burying her near an under-construction house in Ayarkunnam, where the couple worked.

According to police, Soni had lodged a missing persons complaint on October 17, claiming that his wife had gone m...