India, Nov. 30 -- Eleven years after a 23-year-old woman and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter went missing in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram district, a special investigation team (SIT) on Tuesday arrested her then live-in partner and his wife for allegedly murdering the duo, officials said.

The prime accused, Manu alias Mahin Kannu, murdered P Vidya and her daughter after the woman forced to marry her. Manu's wife, Rukiya, assisted him in the crime, the officials added.

While the alleged murder took place in 2011 and a missing complaint was filed by the deceased's family, police shut the case for want of evidence. It was in 2020 that the matter was handed over to the crime branch after it was taken up as part of efforts to look into u...