India, Jan. 28 -- Three suspects were arrested on Sunday for allegedly stabbing a law college professor at the college entrance in Tigaon, Faridabad, on the direction of a lawyer, police said on Tuesday.

Police said the lawyer, Gyanender Khatana, is absconding and had allegedly orchestrated the attack to seek revenge after his wife, Dr Bhumika Khatana, was sacked from the college. The couple believed that the termination followed a complaint made by the victim.

The arrested accused were identified as Rinku Kumar, 32, of Ghodi and Deepak Kumar, 28, of Ghodi Chant in Palwal, and Sumit Kumar, 20, of Kotwan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The trio was arrested on Sunday and produced before a Faridabad court on Monday, which granted two-day polic...