Missing UP woman's body dug up from DM compound after 4 months; was murdered by gym teacher

The body of a woman, who had been missing for over four months, was found buried inside the district magistrate's compound in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town.

According to the police sources here, the body had been buried 15 ft deep inside the compound and was recovered late on Saturday night. The body, which had turned into a skeleton, was identified as that of the woman by her family members by the cloths

Sources said that the woman, wife of a Kanpur based businessman, had allegedly been murdered by a trainer at a gym where she used to go for exercise every morning for the past two years.

Police said that the gym trainer, identified as Vimal Soni, was arrested on Saturday following a massive search operation.

Sources said that the woman, who was a regular at the gym, was having an affair with the gym trainer and was allegedly upset after Soni's engagement elsewhere.

On June 24, the woman went to the gym but never returned. Police said that Soni had confessed to killing the woman. ''He told us that he had hit the woman following a heated argument after which she fainted....he later strangled her to death and buried her body in the DM's Compound,'' said a senior police official in Kanpur. Soni had been absconding since then.

The family of the woman lodged a missing report and suspected the hand of the gym trainer in her disappearance. They also said that the victim had a lot of cash and jewellery when she disappeared.