India, Oct. 28 -- LUCKNOW A seemingly innocuous wrong number call made by a 28-year-old married woman six months ago lured her into an illicit relationship with a 22-year-old youth and led to a conspiracy to murder her husband.

Police said the plot surfaced when the bullet-riddled body of 29-year-old Pradeep Kumar Gautam, a daily wager at a biogas plant, was found alongside the Kisan Path near Mampur village of Bakshi Ka Talab (BKT) on Sunday. Officials claimed to have worked out the case after the arrest of his wife Chandani Gautam alias Jyoti and her paramour Baccha Lal, 22, on Tuesday.

In an official release, Lucknow Police officials stated that Chandani developed a relationship with Baccha Lal, a resident of Banda's Tehsil Baberu, a...