India, June 10 -- The Muzaffarnagar police have arrested the father and brother of a female executive working with an e-commerce firm for killing her over a live-in relationship with a man, police said.

The deceased, Saraswati Maliyan, 23, was strangled and later set on fire by her father and brother, Times of India reported. Both accused - Rajveer Singh, 55, and Sumit Singh, 24 - confessed to the murder, police said.

"Rajveer admitted to killing his daughter out of anger over her relationship. The third accused, Gurdayal Singh, is absconding, and we are conducting raids to arrest him," Muzaffarnagar SSP Sanjay Kumar Verma told Times of India.

Saraswati was working with an e-commerce MNC in Gurgaon, where she handled orders and last-mi...