Police said the victim suspected his wife to be involved in a prostituion racket following which they had regular fights.

In a shocking incident, a woman hatched a conspiracy to kill her husband and for the purpose she hired another woman to get into a relationship with him. The body of Jeevan Singh, 33, was found dumped in Sidhwan Canal on January 16 and police arrested the wife of the victim Manpreet Kaur, 30 along her accomplices for murder charges.
Strained relationship between the husband and the wife is being cited as the reason behind the murder. On January 15, Manpreet found her husband in a compromising position with the woman whom she had hired. Manpreet then along with her accomplice strangulated him to death.
The accused had dumped the body into Sidhwan Canal after which the brother of the victim told police that it might be a case of murder.
While the police have already arrested Manpreet, raids are on to arrest her accomplices —Parveen Rani, Manjit Singh and Sonu. A case under Section 302 (murder), 201(Causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) under the Indian Penal Code has been registered following the complaint of Ranjit Singh, brother of the deceased.
The deceased was a carpenter and the couple had two children. Inspector Ashwani Kumar, SHO Daba police station, said, the victim suspected his wife to be involved in a prostituion racket following which they had regular fights. Fed up Manpreet decided to kill her husband and hired Parveen Rani for Rs 30,000 for having an affair with her husband.
"As part of a well planned conspiracy, Manpreet on January 15 went to visit her relatives with their children leaving a chance for Parveen to be alone with her husband. When she returned, she found them in a compromising situation and called her two accomplices.," said Kumar. He added that Manpreet has confessed to the crime.

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