A woman, her paramour and two contract killers were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a person in the Kindrela area under the Bonai police station in the district on December 19.
Police said the arrested woman had hatched a plot with her paramour to kill her husband Anil Munda, for which they had hired the two contract killers to execute the job. Later, Munda was found dead with throat slit at nearby forest on December 19. During investigations, as police interrogated the woman in connection with the death, she broke down and confessed to the crime.
Police have forwarded all the arrestees to court under the relevant Sections of the IPC.