‘No visitors, separate barracks’: Meerut snakebite murder convicts spend a restless night in jail after death sentence | Meerut News
MEERUT: After a Meerut court pronounced their death sentence on Friday, snakebite case accused Ravita and her lover Amardeep were moved to new, separate barracks in the district jail, where they spent the night with marked restlessness, according to prison authorities.According to news agency PTI, the convicts broke down in the packed courtroom as the verdict was pronounced on Friday, while people raised slogans praising the judiciary.Senior jail superintendent Viresh Raj Sharma said no one had visited either convict since the sentencing. Both are lodged in Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail.Sharma said Ravita has been assigned prisoner number 399/2026 and moved to Barrack No 12A. She was examined by a doctor and provided medication; her health is stable now.Amardeep has been assigned prisoner number 400/2026 and moved to Barrack No. 1A, where he is housed with Sahil Shukla, who was sentenced to death by a Meerut court earlier this week in a similar murder case.On October 14, the court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her lover, Sahil Shukla, to death for murdering her husband, merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, and hiding his dismembered body in a blue drum filled with cement.On Friday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar awarded the death penalty to Ravita and Amardeep for killing her husband Amit Kashyap alias Mikky Kashyap, a resident of Akbarpur Sadat village in Meerut.Amit was found dead on a cot at his home on April 13 last year, with a live snake beside his body. His family initially suspected that he had died of a snakebite.However, a post-mortem examination revealed injury marks on his neck and nose and established that he had been strangled, police said.The prosecution presented 12 witnesses during the trial. The case was decided within 18 months of the registration of the FIR, they said.Assistant District Government Counsel Farzana Maqsood said the prosecution secured a conviction by linking circumstantial evidence. The case was pursued under the Uttar Pradesh Police’s ‘Operation Conviction’ campaign.Sharma said both the convicts were taken to their new barracks wearing the uniforms designated for convicted prisoners, and additional staff have been deployed outside the barracks to keep them under surveillance.According to prison officials, Ravita was already tasked with making bags in the prison, and she will likely be assigned the same responsibility. Amardeep arrived at the prison after his conviction on October 7. He, too, will be assigned work according to prison regulations.The prison administration said the security and daily routines of both individuals will be arranged in line with established rules.(With agency inputs)
