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<\/div>\nThe incident had come to light on November 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Azamgarh, UP: <\/b><\/p>\n
A man has been arrested in the killing of a woman whose chopped body was found in a well here, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Prince Yadav was hit by a bullet in a gunfire encounter with the police on Sunday when he was taken to a spot for the recovery of the head of the woman, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
According to police, Yadav, who was arrested on Saturday, had concealed a country-made pistol at the spot and used it against police in an attempt to flee from their custody.<\/p>\n
The incident had come to light on November 15 after some locals found the body inside a well located outside Paschimi village.<\/p>\n
The body of the woman, who was later identified as Aradhana, was found in a semi-naked condition, and seemed to be two to three days old, Superintendent of Police (Azamgarh) Anurag Arya had earlier said.<\/p>\n
The incident comes in the wake of a similar one reported in Delhi where a 28-year-old man allegedly strangled his live-in partner and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city over several days.<\/p>\n
Yadav with the help of his parents, cousin Sarvesh, and other family members had planned to kill Aradhana, who was stated to be in her mid-20s, out of resentment because she had married someone else and not him.<\/p>\n
She lived in Ishaq Pur village of Azamgarh district.<\/p>\n
It has so far come to light that Yadav had an affair with the victim, who had got married earlier this year to some other person.<\/p>\n
On November 9, Yadav had taken Aradhana on his bike to a temple.<\/p>\n
When they reached there, he, with the help of Sarvesh, strangled her in a sugarcane field. The two then cut her body in six parts, packed them in a polythene bag, and threw it into a well, police said.<\/p>\n
They threw the head into a pond some distance away.<\/p>\n
A sharp-edged weapon, a country-made pistol, and a cartridge have been recovered by police in the case so far.<\/p>\n
Sarvesh, Pramila Yadav, Suman, Rajaram, Kalawati, Manju, Sheela, all of whom allegedly helped Yadav in the crime, are still at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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