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NEW DELHI: A woman and her lover were caught for killing her ailing husband and making it look like an accident .

The incident had come to light last month when doctors at a government hospital in northwest Delhi’s Bhalswa Dairy reported the victim being admitted with severe head injuries. He was identified as Virender Pandey.

The body was sent for autopsy during which doctors found an injury on his neck and reported the matter to the police. Pandey’s wife Ranju, who had admitted him to the hospital, was questioned. After a while, she confessed that she had killed her husband with the help of her lover, Harveer.

She said she got married to Pandey five years ago, but a year after marriage, he fell ill. He was bed-ridden most of the time after that. Whenever it became severe, she had to put him in a hospital. She said she could no longer pay for his treatment.

Recently, Harveer moved into her colony and she met him. They soon fell in love and decided to get Pandey out of the way so that they could marry.

Harveer strangled Pandey when he was asleep and then hit his head with a brick to make it look like an accident. They took the body to the hospital where Ranju claimed a wall at their house had collapsed on Pandey’s head.

When a police team went to the house, no such wall was found and the plot unravelled.

On Ranju’s confession, Harveer was arrested from his house after a case of murder and destroying evidence was registered against him.

The brick was seized. Police also found that Ranju was trying to sell off the house.

