NEW DELHI: Indian police have arrested three men over the murder of an Australian grandmother who disappeared more than two months ago while undertaking charity work in the country’s south, an officer said on Sunday.

Toni Anne Ludgate, 75, went missing in late August in the holy town of Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh state where she was working at an ashram for popular Hindu guru Sai Baba.

The security guard at the apartment building where she was living and two others appeared in court on Saturday on initial charges of strangling her for several hundred dollars and burying her body in fields.

“The watchman has confessed to the crime,” deputy police superintendent P. Srinivas said in Puttapar-thi.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2014