Meerut shocker: Wife has husband shot dead by lover after affair exposed

The case has exposed a disturbing pattern of spousal killings driven by extramarital relationships in the region.

The latest incident came to light after police found the bullet-riddled body of a man, identified as Rahul, in a field near Agwanpur village.

The body bore three gunshot wounds, and investigators initially suspected a robbery attempt gone wrong.

However, the case took a dramatic turn when Rahul’s wife, Anjali, went missing shortly after the murder, NDTV reported.

Police soon discovered that she had been in a relationship with Ajay, a resident of the same village. When officers went looking for Ajay, he too was untraceable.

The couple was eventually found hiding together, leading investigators to suspect their involvement in the killing. During interrogation, Ajay reportedly confessed to the crime.

According to the investigation, Ajay lured Rahul to the fields under the pretext of a meeting and then shot him three times, killing him on the spot.

Another case surfaces: Husband drugged, killed, and dumped in a canal

In a separate but eerily similar case from the same district, another woman, Kajal, was arrested for killing her husband with the help of her lover.

Police said Kajal first gave her husband sedatives, then, with her lover’s help, took him on a motorcycle to a remote canal several kilometres away.

There, the two allegedly strangled him with her scarf before dumping his body into the water.

These back-to-back incidents follow a string of grisly marital murders in Uttar Pradesh. In March, Meerut police uncovered the infamous “drum murder” case, where a woman named Muskan and her lover Sahil Shukla allegedly chopped her husband Saurabh Rajput’s body into four pieces, stuffed them in a drum, and filled it with cement before fleeing to Himachal Pradesh.

Muskan later confessed to the crime to her family, who alerted police, leading to her arrest.

Authorities say such cases underline a troubling trend of domestic violence and betrayal escalating into premeditated homicide. Police in Meerut and nearby districts have been instructed to strengthen community policing and counselling initiatives to curb such crimes.