Meerut, March 26 -- A man from Bijnor allegedly orchestrated the murder of his wife by having her run over by a car while portraying the incident as a case of accidental death. Weeks after the incident took place on March 8, Bijnor police said they had worked out the murder plot and arrested Ankit Kumar, the husband, and his accomplice Sachin Kumar.

It was Ankit, from Bishnoi Sarai in Bijnor's Nagina, who filed a police report of his wife's death in a road accident on March 8. He told police that he was returning home after visiting his in-laws with his wife Kiran when a speeding car fatally crushed her at a fuel station on the Najibabad-Bundki road in Rajpura, killing her.

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