UP: Missing woman's skeleton exhumed from lover's home, two years after she went missing

Firozabad: In a bizarre turn of events, a woman’s skeleton was exhumed after almost two years of her missing, from the bedroom of his lover in Kithaut village of UP’s Firozabad. Police have arrested the latter along with an accomplice for allegedly killing and later burying her inside home. As per cops, the matter came to light after they arrested an absconding suspect named Gaurav, after almost two years in connection to the missing of a girl named Khushboo, (20), native of Kithaut. She had gone missing on November 20, 2020, police said. Following the incident, a case was registered against Gaurav under sections 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her marriage) of the IPC. Police were searching for Khushbu and Gaurav for the past two years," Circle Officer, Sirsaganj, Anivesh Kumar said. “On Saturday, Gaurav was arrested. He told police that Khushbu had been pressuring him to marry her. So on November 21, he killed her with poison, and buried her body in the room (of his house), and put things over it. After this, he fled with his family,” Kumar said. “A case of murder (section 302 of IPC) has been registered against Gaurav and his father Munnalal, and they have been sent to jail, he added.