India, May 22 -- The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch said it had cracked the Ulwe murder case in which a 27-year-old female chemist Alvina Kishorsingh Rajput, also known as Alvina Adamali Khan, had her throat slashed by a masked assailant on Sunday night.

The Crime Branch arrived at the conclusion that it was the deceased's husband who had masterminded the killing by hiring a contract killer. Rajput, supposedly frustrated by his wife's alleged demands to return the money that she had put into their business and give her a financial settlement before granting him a divorce, orchestrated her killing with the help of the two co-accused.

The three accused-Rajput (30), Alisha Tyagi (38) and her aide Charanjit Kaur alias Dimple (34)-were handed over...