SHIVAMOGGA: Ravindra Giri had planned his wife’s murder to the last detail. The head constable zeroed in on three goons and gave them a contract of Rs 4 lakh. Once his wife was dead, he would marry his lover. But the killer slipped not once or twice but three times and it became evident he did not want to kill her. The reason: he was moved by the sight of their two children and couldn’t bear to deprive them of their mother.Matters would have ended there but Giri’s contract proved his undoing. The Bhadravathi police found a photograph of Giri’s wife with Feroz, a contract killer who was arrested in another case. When questioned, Feroz broke down and revealed the murder plot that he could not through with.Cop had promised killers Rs 4 lakhGiri married Anitha of Davanagere nine years ago. They have a son, aged 8, and a six-yearold daughter. While they seemed happily married to outsiders, the couple often fought over a woman whom Giri had been seeing.He refused to snap relations with her despite being married and when Anitha put her foot down, the 38-year-old constable decided to get her killed.He hired Feroz and two of his aides as they had criminal records and were known to take up hit jobs. He gave them a passportsize photo of Anitha’s and promised to pay them Rs 4 lakh once they killed her.The gang tried to kill her thrice, but Feroz failed to pull the trigger each time. He told police that he had grown fond of the constable’s two kids and felt they would be devastated to lose their mother.On Feroz’s lead, police arrested two of his accomplices – Syed Irfan and Suhail. All four have been booked under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder.But Anitha refused to file a complaint against her husband, insisting all was well with them. “We have filed a suo motu case against the constable,” SP Abhinav Khare told TOI.