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Moradabad: A woman in UP was found dead; her blood-soaked body with multiple stab wounds was found in a field in a village in Moradabad on Sunday. She was tortured with a screwdriver and brutally murdered by the man who claimed to be her lover. The deceased has been identified as Saira.

Saira had left her home on Saturday to get fodder for cattle; she did not return home till evening. Her family started searching for her. Her body could only be found the next day when they went to look for her in the fields in Kotwali Mainather in Moradabad.

A preliminary probe suggested she was raped before her murder, as she was bleeding from her private parts. However, the postmortem confirmed that she wasn't raped and also indicated that she was stabbed with a sharp weapon.

While scanning the victim's mobile phone, police found five missed calls. When the number through which the calls were made was investigated, it was traced to a man named Rafi who lives in the same village as Saira.

Saira's mother, Safina, told police that Rafi used to harass her daughter. Police then took Rafi into custody to interrogate him. During the questioning, Rafi confessed to the police that he had killed Saira.

Rafi said that he loved Saira, but she didn't reciprocate his feelings. He said that a few days ago, she had gotten him thrashed by a man from the village. Rafi suspected that Saira was in a relationship with the man who thrashed him.

"After the incident, he stalked Saira for two days. On Saturday, he followed her to the field and stabbed her with the screwdriver 18 times," police said.

The police further said, "When Saira started writhing in pain and begged for her life from Rafi, he pierced her private parts with a screwdriver. She died soon after. He then shook her, and when he was sure that she was dead, he went home, took a bath, changed his clothes and went to sleep."

Rafi has been arrested and an investigation is underway.