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.
The convicts had broken down in the packed courtroom as the verdict was pronounced on Friday, even as people raised slogans hailing the judiciary.
No one has visited either of them since their sentencing, Senior Jail Superintendent Viresh Raj Sharma said.
Both have been lodged in the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail.
Sharma said Ravita has been assigned prisoner number 399/2026 and moved to Barrack No 12A.
A doctor examined her and provided medication; her health is now stable.
Amardeep has been assigned prisoner number 400/2026, and shifted to Barrack No 1A.
He has been placed in the same barrack as Sahil Shukla, who was awarded the death penalty by a Meerut court in a similar murder case this week.
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 concealing 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 in his house on April 13 last year, and a live snake was found beside his body.
His family initially suspected that he died due to a snakebite.
However, the post-mortem examination found injury marks on his neck and nose and revealed that he died of strangulation, according to police.
The prosecution presented 12 witnesses during the trial.
They said the case was decided within 18 months of the FIR's registration.
Assistant District Government Counsel Farzana Maqsood said the prosecution succeeded by linking circumstantial evidence.
The Uttar Pradesh Police pursued the case under its' 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 on October 7, after his conviction.
He, too, will be assigned work according to prison regulations.
The prison administration said it will arrange the security and daily routines of both individuals in line with established rules.
