The police were alerted on Friday about the partially burnt body of a woman lying in dense bushes in Jhansi's Pathakaraka village. (File Photo)

Hours after the police identified the largely burnt body of a 49-year-old woman found in dense bushes in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi two days earlier, they arrested the woman’s nephew, who had been a co-accused with her in a 2022 murder case.

The police said the murder of Ladkunwar, alias Lovely Kushwaha, stemmed from a dispute between her and her nephew, Pramod Kushwaha, 40.

During the preliminary investigation, it emerged that Lovely was allegedly pressuring Pramod for money to pursue the case.…