Kanpur: The husband of a 30-year-old joint magistrate, whose body was found hanging in her house in Kanpur, was on Monday arrested 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 house at Circuit House colony in Kanpur on Sunday with her husband Manu Abhishek claiming that he had found the body after he returned from Delhi. The post-mortem report has confirmed it to be a case of murder. Injury marks were found on her hands and legs which indicate that she was probably beaten with a rod, Assistant Superintendent of Police Shalabh Mathur said.