Wife, her gym trainer plan real estate manager husband's killing; arrested

The wife of a real estate firm's manager, who was shot at in Greater Noida last month, has been arrested along with her paramour and an aide for allegedly planning a failed murder bid, police said on Monday.

Rajeev Verma, who works for Oasis Venetia Heights Company, was shot at by two unidentified motorcycle-borne men on July 23 afternoon outside a project site in Surajpur area, they said.

Verma, who was shot at by the assailants with "a motive to kill", was hospitalised with four bullet injuries, where doctors managed to save him, police said.

After an FIR was lodged at the Surajpur police station, three teams were formed to investigate the case, leading to the arrest of the trio on Sunday near Saqipur in Greater Noida, a senior officer said.

"Accused Rohit Kashyap, a gym instructor, told police that he and Verma's wife Shikha were in a relationship for the last one year. Their intimacy grew at the gym and Shikha wanted her husband killed," Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam ...