New Delhi. Ravita and her lover Amardeep, who got her husband Amit Kashyap bitten by a snake in Meerut, UP, have been sentenced to death by the judge of ADJ Court-12. Ravita, along with her lover Amardeep, had strangled her husband Amit to death and left a poisonous snake near her husband's body to mislead people. The snake had bitten Amit's body several times. The family and other people also thought that Amit died due to snake bite. But when the police conducted the post-mortem of the body, the report stated that the cause of death was suffocation. After this the murder case came to light.
Amit's family had requested the court to give death penalty to Ravita and her lover. After this murder was revealed, the police arrested Ravita and Amardeep. Both of them are in jail for the last 17 months. This case pertains to Akbarpur Sadat village of Bahsuma police station area of Meerut. Amit Kashyap was a tile and stone artisan and his neighbor Amardeep also used to do this work with him. Amardeep started visiting Amit's house, during this time Amardeep and Amit's wife Ravita had a love affair. Amardeep used to call Ravita aunty. On the night of April 1, 2025, after Amit slept, Ravita called Amardeep home and both of them strangled him to death.
VIDEO | Uttar Pradesh: As a Meerut court awards the death penalty in the Amit Kashyap murder case, Public Prosecutor Farzana Masood says, “Today, I feel proud that, through my prosecution efforts, a woman who conspired with her lover to murder her own child has been sentenced to death. I am fully satisfied with the court's verdict. I am glad to have brought pride to my district, Meerut, and to Uttar Pradesh and the entire nation.” (Full video available on PTI Videos –
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After 87 court dates and statements of more than 12 witnesses, the verdict in this case was reached in approximately 551 days. Earlier on October 7, the court had convicted Ravita and Amardeep. Ravita and Amit also have three children. Just two days ago, District Judge Arvind Mishra has sentenced his wife Muskaan and lover Sahil to death in the Saurabh Rajput murder case of Meerut. Muskaan and Sahil killed Saurabh, cut his body into pieces, put the body pieces in cement mortar in a blue drum, filled it with concrete and froze it.