India, April 16 -- A 24-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday from Haryana's Bajghera area for allegedly murdering his 10-year-old sister-in-law and hiding her body in a manhole over an ongoing marital discord with his wife, police said.

The deceased, who lived with her parents, went missing from her home on Saturday . Her father approached the Palam Vihar police station on Monday and filed a complaint.

"On his (suspect) indications, the girl's body packed inside a plastic bag and wrapped in a shawl was recovered from a manhole connecting a sewer in Bajghera on Tuesday night," station house officer (SHO) of Palam Vihar police, inspector Bijender Singh, said.

Police said that the suspect, originally from Raghunathpur in Bihar's Munger di...