A 71-year-old US citizen of Indian origin was brutally murdered with a baseball bat, her body burnt, and then dumped in a drain -- allegedly at the behest of a UK-based 75-year-old NRI who had promised to marry her, police said, reported the PTI.

The victim, identified as Rupinder Kaur Pandher, had travelled from Seattle to Ludhiana in July after being invited by Charanjit Singh Grewal, an England-based NRI originally from Ludhiana.