LUCKNOW, Aug. 13 -- A police constable was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district on Monday night for murdering his wife just 10 days after their marriage following a three years' live-in relationship as he suspected her fidelity, confirmed senior cops on Tuesday.

They said the accused constable Gama Nishad 30, who was posted in Basti District Crime Record Bureau for the past few months, stabbed his wife Maya Gond, 26, a computer operator in the district court, multiple times inside a rented room where they had been living for the past 10 days in Bhuwar Niranjanpur locality under Kotwali police of Basti.

They said the couple earlier lived at some other place in a live-in relation for the past three years and shifted to the rented ro...