BETTIAH, Nov. 25 -- A 25-year-old woman who was believed to have been murdered, leading to her husband's arrest in a dowry-related case, has been found alive and arrested along with her paramour by Areraj police in East Champaran from a location in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

Areraj Station House Officer (SHO) Pratyasha Kumari said the woman, earlier presumed dead, had been traced and detained along with a man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh.

"The duo are being brought from Noida, where she had fled in July. A case of her murder had been registered against her husband, who had been sent to jail," the SHO said.

According to police, the woman (name withheld), who married Ranjeet Kumar - a resident of Ward Number 10, Areraj Nagar P...