KANPUR: The husband of a 30-year-old joint magistrate, whose body was found hanging in her house in Kanpur, was arrested on Monday for allegedly murdering her as she refused to undergo an abortion, police said. The body of Pratibha Gautam, who was three months pregnant, was found hanging in her government house on Sunday with her husband Manu Abhishek claiming that he had found the body after he returned from Delhi. Police suspect that she was strangled.

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