One held in gang rape, murder case of a woman in UP

One person has been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape and murder of a 30- year-old woman, whose body was found from a truck on Delhi- Dehradun national highway in the district a week ago, police said today.

Rizwan, a truck driver, was arrested on 24 September, they said.

During the interrogation, he confessed that he along with two others, Anis and Ashok, had gangraped and killed the woman, police added.

They also said that the woman had taken lift on the truck from Moradabad and later her body was recovered from the vehicle.

Effort is on to nab the other two accused, police added.

-PTI