Meerut, March 8 -- A 35-year-old farmer was allegedly murdered by his wife and her lover in Amroha district after he repeatedly opposed their illicit relationship. The accused duo allegedly strangled him with a plastic rope and later hung the body from a ceiling fan in an attempt to pass off the crime as suicide. Police arrested the wife on Friday, while the lover remains absconding.

The incident took place in Daranagar village, located in the riverine island area of the Ganga in Amroha district. The deceased, identified as Ompal, was the eldest of three sons of farmer Mahavir Singh.

Ompal had married Kallo, a resident of a village under the Garh Mukteshwar police station area of neighbouring Hapur district, about 13 years ago, and the ...