Hyderabad, June 10 -- Police have cracked the murder of a 35-year-old Bihari woman, arresting her husband for allegedly hiring contract killers and orchestrating the crime.

Mina Devi was brutally killed by a group on May 30 at IDA Bollaram in Sangareddy. Her husband, Anil Kumar Sah, initially told the police that both were attacked by unidentified men who slit his wife's throat, left him injured and fled with his bike.

However, police said that it was Anil who planned the murder. He had met with an accident and had become physically weak. He also learnt that his wife had been sending her earnings to her parents for the past three years.

Anil said he felt neglected by Mina and thus decided to kill her. He hired Rinku Kumar, leader of a ...