India, June 22 -- The 25-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a soak-pit in front of her in-laws' house in Faridabad's Roshan Nagar on Friday, was strangled to death by her father-in-law while she was asleep on April 21, police said on Saturday. Bhoop Singh, 54, was arrested late on Friday, produced before a city court on Saturday, and taken on a two-day police custody.

During interrogation, Singh told police that family feud was the primary reason behind the murder and he entered Tannu Rajput's room on the night of April 21 when she had fallen asleep. He strangled her to death with her scarf. The deceased's husband Arun Singh, 28, registered a missing person's case at Palla police station on April 24.

It is yet not clear if th...