A man in India has been handed a double life sentence for murdering his wife with an unorthodox weapon: a highly venomous cobra.
While the case’s eye-catching details have drawn international attention, the country’s Supreme Court has suggested it may be part of a growing trend in India where murderers use poisonous snakes in an effort to pass off the death as accidental.
“If he divorces her he will have to part with all her wealth,” Hariram Shankar, assistant superintendent of police in Kerala told NBC News. “If he kills her through an explicit murder weapon, the wealth would also have to be returned. So he wanted to get rid of her through something that would resemble an accident.”
Prosecutors said that, after an unsuccessful effort involving a viper, Kumar procured a poisonous cobra from a snake charmer, starved it for a week to render it more aggressive and induced it to bite his wife.
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