New Delhi, March 20 -- Muskan Rastogi, who allegedly killed her husband Saurabh Rajput with the help of her boyfriend Sahil Shukla in Uttar Pradesh, pretended to have anxiety, police said on Thursday. She also convinced Sahil to kill Saurabh by posing as Sahil's "dead mother" and speaking to him on Snapchat, a report cited police as saying.

"The [Snapchat] account was not in the name of Sahil's mother but the messages were sent by Muskan in a way that she made him believe that his dead mother had reincarnated and was speaking to him," Superintendent of Police (Meerut City) Ayush Vikram Singh was quoted by NDTV as saying.

He said Muskan used this as a means of controlling Sahil and, later, convincing him to kill her husband, Saurabh. "Th...