MEERUT, April 18 -- Close on the heels of two recent incidents in Meerut, where women reportedly orchestrated the murder of their husbands in collusion with their lovers and then tried to cover up the crime, a 25-year-old woman, Rekha, along with her lover Pintu, was arrested in Bareilly for allegedly poisoning and strangulating her husband and staging it as death by suicide.

The victim was identified as Kehr Pal Singh (35). The gruesome incident unfolded in the Thakurdwara locality of Bareilly on April 13, police said on Friday.

According to the police, Rekha confessed to lacing her husband's tea with rat poison. She then called Pintu, a resident of Bijnor, and together they strangled Singh to death before hanging the body to mislead a...