India, March 19 -- A 32-year-old man's wife allegedly murdered him in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, dismembered the body, sealed it inside a drum, and covered it with cement with the help of a person she was in a relationship with, investigators said on Wednesday.

Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla allegedly mixed sedatives in Saurabh Rajput's food before killing him when he returned from London where he worked in the merchant navy. The alleged killers then went on a trip to Shimla.

Police superintendent Ayush Vikram Singh said Rastogi confessed to killing Rajput when she returned home and was unable to explain her husband's absence to her mother whom she initially tried to mislead with vague answers. Rastogi's family immediately took her to a p...