Man in India gets a life sentence for killing his wife with a cobra. The case is the second in the country this month involving an accusation of murder by poisonous snake.
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. Police claim that the suspicious timing of the two bites also pointed to foul play. After the alleged failed attempt two months earlier, Kumar’s wife had been admitted to the hospital, where she had to undergo plastic surgery to repair the damage caused by the viper's bite.
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