Court awards life sentence to Husband for killing Wife using Cobra

  

On Wednesday, a Sessions Court in Kerala awarded life sentence in the Uthra murder case to the victim's husband for killing his wife using a cobra.

On Oct 11, the Court had held the husband -- Sooraj S Kumar -- guilty of murder, poisoning, destruction of evidence & also attempt to murder for his first try at killing his then 25-year old wife -- Uthra -- by using a viper.

Additional Sessions Judge-VI Manoj M, who pronounced the sentence, said the case was a rarest of the rare, but looking at the age of the convict -- 28 years now -- it decided to award him life sentence instead of death, an Advocate present in the Court said.

The advocate also said that the Court awarded Kumar life sentence for the offence of attempt to murder, ten years for poisoning & 7 years for destruction of evidence.

The Lawyer said that the Court also imposed a total fine of Rs 5.85 lakh on the convict.

Sooraj had killed his wife Uthra by letting a cobra bite her in her sleep in May 2020.

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