India, March 19 -- A merchant navy officer from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife and her lover, and his body was found dismembered and sealed inside a drum with cement, police said on Wednesday.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Ayush Vikram Singh said an investigation was launched after the victim, Saurabh Rajput, 29, was reported to be missing by his family from Brahmpuri's Indra Nagar Phase 2 on March 4.

The victim's wife, Muskan, 27, and Sahil, 25, was detained based on suspicion. During interrogation, police came to know that the two were in a relationship, and they confessed to having stabbed Rajput to death on March 4. The accused also confessed that they chopped Rajput's body, dumped it inside a d...