MEERUT, April 19 -- A 25-year-old woman and her lover allegedly killed her 35-year-old husband by poisoning and strangulating him and tried to pass it off as suicide in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday, adding the accused have been arrested.
Police said the incident took place in the Thakurdwara locality of Bareilly on April 13 and the deceased has been identified as Kehr Pal Singh (35). The accused have been identified as Rekha Singh and Pintu, a resident of Bijnor, police said.
The woman spiked her husband's tea with rat poison. After he was unconscious, she called Pintu and they strangled Singh to death, additional superintendent of police (ASP), north, Mukesh Chandra Mishra said.
The accused then hanged the b...