India, Aug. 20 -- A 47-year-old man and his two associates have been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife by forcibly administering a poisonous weedicide and a high dose of sleeping pills and later surreptitiously burying her body at a burial ground in Chandan Hola near Chhatarpur, police said on Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Shadab Ali, a house painting contractor, allegedly killed his wife Rabab (single name) on August 2. He was arrested along with his fellow workers Shahrukh Khan, 28, and Tanveer, 25, for their role in the conspiracy, said deputy commissioner of police (south) Ankit Chauhan.

Police said Rabab's body was exhumed on August 15, almost 12 days after its burial, after permission was taken from the sub-divisiona...