This case happened in India, An Indian man was sentenced to life imprisonment for using a cobra and a viper to murder his wife.
The Indian man who is known as Sooraj Kumar released a breed of snake known as Russell’s viper on his wife Uthra. His rash act left her in hospital for almost two months.
She eventually got discharged and was recuperating at her parents’ place, when Kumar got a cobra from a snake handler and threw it on her while she was sleeping.
She eventually succumbed to the poisonous bite of the cobra.
When he was first arrested, he pleaded not guilty but police found records in his phone of communications with snake handlers as well as his internet browsing history of snake videos.
Kumar stayed in the room with his wife after the cobra had bit her, and only went about his morning activities the following day when his mother in law alerted him.
A snake handler was quoted by the Hindustan Times saying that Kumar had probably caused pain to the cobra which then triggered the cobra to bite.
Uthra’s parents grew suspicious after their daughter’s death when Kumar tried to gain control of her property. His family was also charged with conspiracy according to media reports after some of Uthra’s gold was found near Kumar’s home buried underground days after her murder.
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