A woman and her lover in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut were reportedly served death sentence by a court on Friday for killing her husband and leaving a live snake beside his body to make it look like a case of snakebite.
However, the the case took a different turn when post-mortem examination revealed injury marks on his neck and nose and concluded that he died of strangulation, police was quoted as saying. The death sentence was awarded by additional district and sessions judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar.
Amit was found dead on a cot in his house on April 13 last year and a live snake was found beside his body. His family initially suspected that he died due to a snakebite.
They have been ordered to pay a fine of ₹ 50,000 under Section 302 and ₹ 20,000 under Section 238A. The death sentence in the cases comes days after the Meerut district court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla to death for the murder of her husband Saurabh Rajput in the Meerut blue drum case. “Both have been sentenced to death for the crime. It is a historic verdict. The entire nation was watching; the eyes of the public were fixed on what punishment the perpetrators of this crime would receive. They appeared to be in a state of shock; they were stunned.
One can imagine the mental state of someone facing the death penalty,” he said.
