A court in Meerut on Friday sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her husband and placing a live snake beside his body to make the murder look like a snakebite.
The court found the crime to fall under the “rarest of rare” category, said Meerut district government counsel Krishna Kumar Chaubey.
His family initially suspected a snakebite. Additional district and sessions judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar awarded the death penalty to Ravita, 24, and Amardeep, 26, for murdering Amit Kashyap alias Mikky, 25, and destroying evidence, 547 days after the incident, the DGC added. Amit, a resident of Akbarpur Sadat village, was found dead on a cot at his home on April 13, 2025, with a live snake beside his body. Police also found that the two had spoken on the phone 51 times within 24 hours of the incident.
However, the post-mortem examination found that he had died of strangulation, with injuries to his neck and nose, said police.
This is the second instance of a Meerut court awarding the death penalty in a murder case this week. In a similar case, a court on October 14 sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla to death for murdering her husband, merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, and concealing his dismembered body in a blue drum filled with cement. Also Read I After Lucknow boyfriend’s death, influencer Shraddha Dubey, sister seen riding e-rickshaw in Nepal The victim’s brother filed an FIR against them on April 16, 2025. The prosecution examined 12 witnesses during the trial, including family members, the snake charmer and the investigating officer, said additional district government counsel (ADGC) Farzana Maqsood.
Ravita cited her three young children and requested that their welfare be ensured, while Amardeep said his elderly parents had nobody to look after them.
