India, March 31 -- Two days after police recovered a decomposing body of a 35-year-old woman from a bed box at a flat in Shahdara, they arrested the deceased's husband and his maternal uncle in connection with the matter.

According to police, Ashish Kumar and his uncle Ashok Khan - both in mid-40s - were apprehended on Sunday. Police had already held Vivekanand Mishra, a 64-year-old tuition teacher who owned the flat, and his accomplice Abhay Kumar Jha, 29, on Friday and Saturday.

Additional deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) Neha Yadav said the motive behind the murder was yet to be ascertained. "The murder seems to have happened in the heat of the moment," the ADCP said.

Police said investigation suggest the woman, Anjali Kumar...