One Anup Sarkar, 50, of village Sadhuhar in South Dinajpur, was allegedly strangled and his body hung from a tree on Friday.

Homemaker Tahera Bibi, 44, was found bludgeoned to death at her home in Jadupur in Malda’s Englishbazar on Saturday.

Police have detained Anup’s wife Kanchana and are in search of one Imel Hansda, suspected of having an affair with her. In Tahira’s case, police suspect her husband Khalil Sheikh killed her. He is absconding.

Police said the way the body was hanging did not look like suicide.

In Tahera's case, sources said she fought with husband Khalil Sheikh on Friday evening. Police suspect she was bludgeoned. Heavy objects with blood stains have been found at the spot. Khalil has fled.