A court in the Palghar district Maharashtra on Wednesday remanded a 28-year-old woman and her partner to police custody till July 30, a day after they were arrested on charges of killing her husband and burying the body under tiles at home, reported PTI.

The sessions court at Vasai sent Chaman Devi and Monu Sharma to police custody and their interrogation will help in establishing the motive behind the gruesome murder and find out other details of the crime, an officer said.

Chaman Devi and Sharma were arrested from Pune on Tuesday evening, a day after the decomposed body of her husband, 34-year-old Vijay Chouhan, was exhumed from the couple's home at Gangnipada in Nallasopara, a distant suburb of Mumbai.