PRAYAGRAJ, May 28 -- Personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and Sarai Akil Police of Kaushambi district arrested a milkman in connection with the murder of a 65-year-old woman found strangled in her house in Barai village in Sarai Akil late evening on May 25. The accused and the victim were in a relationship, and the former murdered her after she allegedly refused to have physical relationship with him on the fateful day, police said.

The victim, Sanwari Devi, originally from Ganja village in Prayagraj, was married to Krishna Kumar Singh of Barai village. The couple had no children, and Krishna Kumar left her after about three years of marriage. Since then, she lived alone at her in-laws' ancestral home and earned a living throu...