Delhi Police have cracked the murder of a 32-year-old UPSC aspirant whose charred body was found earlier this month in a burnt apartment in Gandhi Vihar, a case that first appeared to be a fire accident but turned out to be a chilling crime of passion and revenge.

The victim, identified as Ramkesh Meena, was allegedly killed by his live-in partner and two others, who later set his flat ablaze to pass the murder off as an accident. What was initially thought to be an air-conditioner blast was, in fact, a carefully orchestrated cover-up.

Days after Meena's body was discovered, police arrested three people, his 21-year-old live-in partner Amrita Chauhan, her former boyfriend Sumit Kashyap (27), and their friend Sandeep Kumar (29), all residents of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Amrita, a B.Sc.

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