The family suspected foul play and sought a probe into the death. It was there the doctors said she died due to another snake bite. She was declared dead when the family took her to hospital. Uthra was living in her parents’ house, recuperating from an earlier viper bite when she was found motionless by her mother on the morning of. Sooraj was charged with murder, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence following a complaint lodged by Uthra’s family. However, he wanted to retain the assets received from her family at their marriage, so he hatched the conspiracy to “project the murder as natural and serpentine curse”.Īlso read: How parents of Hindu woman ‘hired’ Hindutva activists to kill her Muslim boyfriend in Belagavi It was also ruled by the bench that the viper bite, too, was induced and part of a conspiracy hatched by Sooraj to get rid of Uthra.Īs for the motive, the court said Sooraj had “ill-will towards Uthra on account of her mental condition”. The court further noted that Uthra sustained the cobra bite while she was convalescing after sustaining a viper bite, and had no other fatal disease at the time of her death. “There is no iota of suspicion to doubt” them, it said. The court dismissed Sooraj’s attempt to discredit the veracity of expert witnesses, saying they had given valid and cogent reasons to support their opinions. They established the 29 circumstances the police relied upon to prove the murder. Eighty-seven police witnesses were examined before the court, apart from a live demonstration to establish that the snake bite was homicidal and not natural.Ī water-tight case was built on evidence provided by surgeons who conducted the necropsy (the animal equivalent of an autopsy) of the dead snake, which was exhumed during investigation, apart from veterinary doctors, wildlife officials, zoologists, herpetologists (experts on reptiles and amphibians), snake handlers, and medical specialists. Most of the trial was conducted online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and over 700 questions were posed to the accused, who flatly denied the charges. There was no direct evidence in the case, but Kerala Police’s meticulous medical, forensic and scientific evidence on snake bites proved that Sooraj had killed Uthra using a live 1.52-metre-long cobra. Kumar to double life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on him for the murder of his wife Uthra on.
New Delhi: On 13 October, a district and sessions judge in Kerala’s Kollam sentenced Sooraj S.
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