It was supposed to be a “perfect murder” and then it was not. The meticulous planning by a forensic science student, who binge-watched crime web series, to pass off the murder of her 32-year-old live-in partner as an accident was left threadbare by CCTV cameras and experts in her field of study.

Amrita Chauhan (21), her former boyfriend Sumit Kashyap (27) and their associate Sandeep Kumar (29) strangled Ramkesh Meena, a civil services aspirant, to death earlier this month, and poured oil, ghee and wine on his body to ensure it burned completely. Meena had allegedly refused to delete her private photos and videos from his hard disk.

She then used her forensic science knowledge to stage the incident as an accidental fire, a senior police official said.

“The case was one of the perfectly p

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