NEW DELHI: Two persons were arrested in Assam’s Jorhat district on Saturday for allegedly raping and murdering a 70-year-old woman, police said.The woman was reported missing since the previous evening, police said. Her body was later recovered from a drain in the Mohabondha tea estate on Thursday morning after it was spotted by locals.“After the body was spotted by locals, they informed us. Inputs from the locals and leads picked up by our sniffer dogs led to the two accused,” a police officer said.The duo later confessed to the crime during interrogation, another officer said. “They are daily wage labourers. We are investigating the case from all angles,” she added, as quoted by PTI.
