Meerut woman, lover sentenced to death for killing husband, staging it as a snake-bite death

Amit Kashyap was found dead on a cot in his house in April last year and a live snake was found beside his body. His family initially suspected that he died due to a snakebite.

Police bring the accused, Ravita, to court in the Meerut snakebite murder case. | ANI Photo

Meerut: A court here on Friday sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her husband and leaving a live snake beside his body to make it look like a case of snakebite, officials said.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar awarded the death penalty to Ravita and Amardeep for the murder of Amit Kashyap alias Mikky Kashyap, a resident of Akbarpur Sadat village here, the court officials said.

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.

However, the post-mortem examination found injury marks on his neck and nose and that he died of strangulation, police said.

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