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Meerut court awards death penalty in staged snake-bite murder case
An Indian court has sentenced a woman and her lover to death for murdering her husband and staging the killing as a snake bite. The pair attempted to conceal their crime by placing a snake near the victim's body, but a post-mortem examination exposed the deception.
LSN India ·
A sessions court in Meerut has handed down capital punishment to Ravita and her paramour Amardip for the premeditated murder of Amit Kashyap in a case that has drawn widespread attention across Uttar Pradesh. The two conspirators killed Kashyap by asphyxiation before orchestrating an elaborate cover-up designed to mislead investigators.
According to court records, after committing the murder, the accused placed a snake near the victim's body in an attempt to fabricate evidence that Kashyap had died from a serpent bite. The scheme unraveled when a detailed post-mortem examination revealed the true cause of death was manual strangulation rather than envenomation.
The court characterized the case as exceptionally rare, noting the calculated nature of the crime and the defendants' methodical effort to manipulate forensic findings. Investigators determined that Ravita and Amardip had planned the murder, making their coordinated execution of the crime a significant factor in the severity of the sentence.
The case underscores the importance of thorough forensic analysis in criminal investigations and highlights how modern pathological techniques can uncover concealed evidence. The death sentences mark a significant conclusion to what has been one of the more notable criminal proceedings in the region in recent years.