India, Oct. 16 -- A woman and her lover in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut were reportedly served death sentence by a court on Friday for killing her husband and leaving a live snake beside his body to make it look like a case of snakebite.

The convicts have been identified as Ravita and Amardeep who reportedly plotted to kill Amit Kashyap alias Mikky Kashyap, a resident of Akbarpur Sadat village in Meerut, news agency PTI reported.

The death sentence was awarded by additional district and sessions judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar.

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 the case took a different turn when p...