India, Oct. 27 -- Strangulation, then an oil pour and a murder staged to look as accidental death -- a woman in Delhi used her forensic science knowledge to the best of her abilities, not for her academic growth, but to plot her live-in partner's brutal death.

The 21-year-old woman had just recently found out that her live-in partner recorded obscene videos of her and stored them on a hard disk. Miffed with his refusal to delete them, the "trapped and angry" woman contacted her ex, who became her happy helper in plotting the partner's murder.

The murder of the UPSC aspirant, who was in a live-in relationship with the accused, took place in the early hours of October 6.

To orchestrate the murder plot, the woman took help from her ex and...