VARANASI, May 14 -- In a chilling reminder to the Saurabh murder case reported from Meerut in which his wife Muskan and her friend Sahil were arrested, the Ballia police, on Tuesday, nabbed a woman and her paramour for allegedly killing the former's husband.

The accused had chopped the body into six parts, packed the torso and body parts in different poly bags and then threw it at different places to hide the identity. Two accomplices of the paramour, who is a truck driver, were also arrested for the brutal murder.

The police have recovered the body parts while search for the head is on, which the accused threw in the Ghaghara river.

A senior police officer said that the deceased has been identified as Devendra Ram (62), a resident of ...