Meerut, July 18 -- Wife among four people arrested after a 32-year-old school operator in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut was found dead at his rented home in J-Block Colony in Hastinapur on Friday morning, police said.

According to police officers, Atul Kumar Panwar was allegedly murdered by his wife, Damini, and a bus driver at Panwar's school, Tushar, who disguised the crime as a snakebite death.

Two snake charmers -- Sonu and Uday Kumar -- were arrested in connection with the case, a police officer said, adding that the snake used was a highly venomous krait.

Damini allegedly conspired with Tushar to eliminate him. "Atul was first given milk laced with sleeping pills before a snake was used to bite him while he was asleep, causing his death...