MEERUT, Nov. 15 -- Two brothers identified as Pawan and Kamal, who were arrested from Amroha district's Luhari Khadar village on Friday for allegedly killing a farmer Inder Singh over an old enmity earlier this month, were sent to jail on a court's order on Saturday, police said.

According to officials, the accused first strangled the 45-year-old farmer and then hanged his body from a tree using a rope to make it appear a case of suicide. The killing was the culmination of years of hostility between the families, further intensified by an alleged illicit relationship involving one of the accused and a woman from the victim's family.

Inder Singh went missing on the night of November 2 after he went to sleep in in his field. On November 4...