BHOPAL: Enraged over his wife deserting him and living with another man, a 35-year-old man called his wife and her live-in partner on pretext of meeting children and took them to a forest in Khajuri.

Thereafter, he and his two accomplices tied both his wife and her live-in partner to trees and forced him to drink

. Subsequently, the accused strangled the man when he fell unconscious and then disposed his body in Parwa river .

The incident came to light on Friday after the younger brother of the deceased went searching for him at the woman's house. She told him about the murder after which a case was filed against the three accused, of which two were arrested.

SHO Khajuri HC Pandey said that accused Santosh

, 35, a resident of Sehore, and deceased Deepak Ojha, 38, a resident of Shivshakti Nagar Chhola, worked together as labourers. During this period, Deepak developed an illicit affair with Santosh's wife. She left Santosh and her two children around

back and shifted to Deepak's house.

Sontosh was enraged over this and wanted to take revenge from Deepak. On September 26, he told Deepak that his children want to meet their mother and asked him to bring his wife to his house. Deepak fell in his trap and took the woman to his house. As planned earlier, Santosh offered Deepak drinks and took him and his wife to Nayapura jungle area in Khajuri. Santosh's accomplices Dharmendra and Chain Singh, both residents of Sehore, also accompanied them.

They all had drinks together and then the three accused allegedly tied Deepak and the woman to trees. They forcefully stuffed liquid insecticide into Deepak's mouth and when he fell unconscious they strangled him.

They then disposed Deepak's body in the river. The accused even put the wooden frame of Ganesh idols immersed in the river over the dead body to conceal it. The accused and the women returned and she kept mum due to fear. SHO Pandey said that Santosh and Dharmendra were arrested while Chain Singh was still on run.