Police arrested a 32-year-old woman, working as an assistant manager in a nationalised bank, for allegedly conspiring to kill a sub-engineer employed with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The woman and the sub-engineer were in an extramarital affair, and when the man ended the relationship, the woman arranged for a contract killer from Odisha to kill him, police said. Timely intervention by the police, however, helped save the man’s life.

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