India, Jan. 4 -- A lawyer and his elder son were arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing the lawyer's 17-year-old daughter in Bihar's Banka district over her relationship with a youth from a neighbouring village, and for filing a fake missing complaint, police said.

According to police officers, father Shashibhusan Jha and son slit the minor's throat with a sharp weapon and disposed of the body in a canal about 250 metres from the house in Chamreili village on January 1. The body was recovered from the canal on Saturday.

Jha filed a First Information Report (FIR) on January 2 against the youth, Shailesh Kumar, at the town police station. The lawyer alleged that Shailesh had kidnapped his daughter with the intention of marriage.

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