A man and a woman who had been in an extramarital affair were sentenced to death in Meerut on Friday for killing her husband.
The couple has been sentenced to death by a family in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.
Ravita and her lover, Amardeep, killed the woman’s husband, Amit Kashyap. Their crime surfaced after the police found out that the snake had been defanged and was not poisonous. The accused woman and the victim have three children. This is the second couple to have received the death penalty for such a crime in Meerut in a week.
They strangled him and later threw a snake at him to pass off the murder as death due to snakebite.
Announcing the verdict, the judge said that the district magistrate will now take care of the children. “A wife observes Karva Chauth for her husband’s long life…this act committed against her husband is unforgivable,” the judge added.
Earlier this week, Muskaan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla were handed the death sentence by a local court in Meerut for murdering Saurabh Rajput, the woman’s husband.
