India, Aug. 22 -- A former village pradhan or head of Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi was arrested on Wednesday along with his nephew for the murder of a woman, whose body they chopped and threw at multiple places, police said.

The victim, identified as Rachna Yadav, was in a relationship with the former village head, Mahewa Sanjay Patel (41), for the past two years and had recently been pressuring him to marry her, news agency PTI quoted police as saying, adding that she had also allegedly extorted large sums of money from him.

To get rid of her, the village head allegedly plotted her murder with his nephew Sandeep Patel (25) and associate Pradeep alias Deepak Ahirwar, he said.

The accused strangled Yadav in a car in the intervening night of A...