LUCKNOW, April 11 -- A 27-year-old pregnant woman was found murdered, with her throat slit, at her house in a Barabanki village on Friday morning, police said, suspecting the role of some familiar person.

Barabanki additional superintendent of police (ASP), South, Akhilesh Narain Singh, told reporters that the victim, Raj Kumari, lived with her husband Suraj Lal in a two-room house in Semrawa village under Kothi police station limits. He said the woman was expecting her first child and she was alone in the house when the incident took place on Friday morning. Suraj Lal had gone to Barabanki town early in the morning in search of work, but returned early after failing to find any, Singh said.

The ASP said Suraj Lal returned home and foun...