New Delhi, March 20 -- A grisly crime similar to the Meerut-based merchant navy officer's murder came to light in Jaipur, Rajasthan, where a woman and her paramour allegedly killed her husband by strangling him and then setting the body on fire, media reports say. Gopali Devi, along with her lover Deendayal, were arrested for killing her husband Dhannalal, a vegetable seller, on March 15. The accused were planning to flee the city but failed to do so and were arrested, media reports quoted police as saying.

On March 15, Dhannalal couldn't find his wife. He went to Deendayal's shop, Shyam Fashion, situated in Sanganer's Kashido Wali Gali, to look for her. There, he saw Gopali Devi working with Deendayal. An argument followed between the c...