GREATER NOIDA: A 26-year-old woman and her brother-in-law were arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering her husband on Saturday.

Police said the woman cut her husband’s head while he was sleeping and stabbed him in the stomach several times. According to the police, she was in a relationship with her brother-in-law Ankit (22) and wanted to stay with him.

The victim, Shyam Sundar (32), was from

in Uttar Pradesh and he had moved to Noida six years ago after marriage. The couple stayed at Sadarpur Colony, Sector 45, with their two children and Sunder worked with a private construction firm.

On May 5, around 4 am, the woman called up the police claiming that some men broke into their house, killed her husband and fled.

Prashant Kapil, the SHO, Sector 39 police station, said: “Later, she confessed that Ankit was present in their house that day. Around 2 am, she chopped her husband’s neck while Ankit held him. She then stabbed him in the stomach. After the

, Ankit fled to Chandigarh. We have booked both under section 302 (murder) of the IPC. They have been sent to jail.”