KANPUR, Dec. 9 -- Police in Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun have set up a high-level Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the death of Kuthaund station house officer (SHO) Arun Kumar Rai who was found dead under mysterious circumstances late on Friday (December 5) night.

Rai's wife Maya Rai lodged a formal complaint on Saturday, after which a murder case was registered against constable Meenakshi Sharma, a colleague of Arun Kumar Rai, who was later arrested.

SHO Rai was found with a critical gunshot wound inflicted by his service pistol at his official residence on Jalaun Kuthaund police station premises and succumbed to his injuries hours later on the fateful day.

While police initially treated the incident as a potential suicide, Maya Ra...