Latur, Maharashtra: A 45-year-old woman was brutally murdered with a sharp weapon by two men on suspicion of hiding information about a murder that took place in her village a few months ago in Latur district of Maharashtra. Police said on Wednesday.

He said that a woman named Taramati Kachru Dhage was murdered on Monday evening around her village Villegao under Ahmedpur tehsil.

Following a complaint by the victim's son, a case was registered against two persons at Kingaon police station late on Monday night and they were later arrested.

According to the police, a few months ago, Arvind Pandhari Telge, a resident of Villegao, was murdered by an unknown person.

Subsequently, Arvind Telge's brother Sainath and his family started interrogating Taramati Dhage's relative and the deceased's friend Akash Dhage about the murder and the suspect, he said.

Police said, when Akash Dhage did not provide any information, they suspected that Taramati Dhage might know something about the murder.

He told that on Monday afternoon, Taramati Dhage had gone to graze her buffalo near Manyad river, when Sainath Telge and his associate Babu Haqqani Shaikh reached there and confronted her.

They attacked Taramati Dhage with a sharp weapon on her right ear, forehead and head, resulting in her death, police said.

Sainath Telge and Shaikh were arrested and produced before a local court, which sent them to four-day police remand, he said.