India, March 25 -- The man who was arrested last week for killing his wife in Garhi Harsaru, Sector 88, allegedly used a combination of two drugs that proved lethal together, police said, citing his confession.

On March 18, the accused, Arun Sharma, 26, first injected his wife, Kajal, 23, with a painkiller when she complained of body ache. He then administered her with a high dose of an anaesthetic drug under the pretext of providing her further relief, which killed her within minutes, he told police.

Station house officer, Sector-10, Kuldeep Singh said, "During quizzing after arrest on Friday, Arun told us that he had stolen both the drugs and the injection from the private hospital in Sector-9 where he worked as an X-ray technician ti...