Murder plot

“That afternoon he told me we would go sightseeing. He took me to a restaurant in Pul Prahaldpur where we had dinner. Then he took me to a terrace of an under-construction building. It was dark,” she said.

“On the terrace, I remember him slapping me and hurling a brick that hit my head. The next thing I remember is I woke up at the hospital with no memory.”

She was found unconscious by carpenters at a construction site in south Delhi. They alerted police and she was admitted to hospital, where doctors painstakingly tried to revive her from coma and memory loss.

Police registered a case of attempted murder but the investigation made no progress as the woman couldn’t offer a lead.

Madhuri regained her memory bit by bit and told police on September 27 that her husband tried to kill her.

“Her statement was recorded and she accused Ravi Singh of attacking her,” said deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Romil Baaniya.

Her husband could not believe his ears when cops visited his home and disclosed that Madhuri is alive. Investigators said Singh loved another woman and seduced Madhuri only for money.

Her father, farmer Satish Chand, thanked god for giving his daughter back. The family searched for her for months before he got a call from the New