ghaziabad a nurse who allegedly murdered her husband and took his body to the hospital where she worked hoping to pass it off as suicide was arrested on saturday after police insisted on an autopsy and the nurses teenaged daughter told a cop she had witnessed her mother pressing down on her fathers mouth through a windowpolice said kavita 30 the nurse was seeing vinay sharma 30 a colleague who works in the insurance department in the kavi nagar branch of the hospital chain sharma was arrested too for allegedly being part of the conspiracy to kill kavitas husband maheshpolice said mahesh lived in the shastri nagar area of kavi nagar with kavita and their two children an 8yearold son and a 13yearold daughter sharma is a resident of badalpur in greater noida on november 30 night kavita reached her hospital in a huff telling doctors and her coworkers there that mahesh had committed suicide when doctors examined the body she told them mahesh had hanged himself from a fan using a blanket the hospital followed procedure and informed the police nipurn aggarwal sp city 1 told toi that police received information from the hospital at 1130pm kavita said she didnt know why her husband had hanged himself she tried every possible way to ensure that a postmortem of the body was not done but we sent the body for autopsy the next day he said aggarwal said when they inquired into the familys circumstances they found no probable cause the family did not have any financial problems mahesh was employed he ran a welding shop in kavi nagar said the spcrucial information came from kavita and maheshs daughter who told a policewoman that she had seen kavita pressing down on maheshs face after a couple of minutes when kavita came out of the room her daughter asked her about it kavita according to the girl told her that mahesh had gutka stuck in his mouth and she was taking it out aggarwal said a police team questioned kavita again we asked her if they had a fight she denied it initially but when her phone was checked a chat with vinay was found in which they were planning to kill mahesh we detained mahesh and he revealed they were seeing each other for four years he claimed mahesh had learnt about their relationship and used to beat kavita up regularly after getting drunk the sp saidthe autopsy report which came on friday found choking to be the cause of death later kavita caved in and revealed that after a fight she had taken a pillow and held it on maheshs face till he died aggarwal saidmaheshs elder brother jaswant singh filed a police complaint in an fir filed at kavi nagar police station kavita and sharma were booked under section 302 murder and 120b criminal conspiracy of the ipc both were sent to judicial custody