Lucknow, Dec. 4 -- A late-night drunken scuffle ended with the death of a 37-year-old woman, whose body was later found seated upright near a drain in Gomti Nagar's Vishal Khand-2 on Monday morning.

Police on Wednesday arrested two men, both 24 years old, who reportedly confessed to staging the body to make it appear alive in an attempt to mislead people and delay the woman's identification.

They said the deceased, Rekha Verma, had left her Aliganj residence on Sunday morning and was found dead the next day. Her body was found leaning against a wall near the home of a former IAS officer.

With no phone or identification card on her, the case triggered widespread curiosity before investigators unravelled the sequence of events.

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