Thane, Dec 5 (PTI) A woman and three others have been arrested for allegedly killing her husband, whose partially burnt body was found on a highway in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Friday.

The Thane Rural police have booked Hasina Mehboob Shaikh, her brother, Fayaz Zakir Husain Shaikh (35), and two others, who plotted and killed the victim after he denied her a divorce, an official said.

He said that the partially burnt and decomposed body of the victim, Tipanna, a native of Siruguppa village in Karnataka’s Bellary district, was found near Shahapur on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway on November 25.

According to the police, Tipanna and Hasina were estranged and lived separately due to some domestic disputes, and she had demanded a divorce, which he refused.

“The primary motive

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