India, March 25 -- Amid the ongoing row over the Meerut murder, a 25-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya was allegedly killed by a contract killer hired by his wife and her lover within 15 days of his marriage, police said on Monday.

Police said that all three of them, the wife, her lover, and the contract killer, have been arrested, a news agency PTI report said. Sahar SHO Pankaj Mishra said that they received information about a man lying injured in a field on March 19.

The victim, Dilip Yadav, was later admitted to a community health centre in Bidhuna and his family members were informed of the same. He was then shifted to Saifai hospital, from where he was taken to Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior and then to Agra.

As Yadav's condition...