Senior jail superintendent Viresh Raj Sharma said no one had visited either convict since the sentencing.
However, a post-mortem examination revealed injury marks on his neck and nose and established that he had been strangled, police said.
Assistant District Government Counsel Farzana Maqsood said the prosecution secured a conviction by linking circumstantial evidence. The case was pursued under the Uttar Pradesh Police’s ‘Operation Conviction’ campaign.
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 hiding his dismembered body in a blue drum filled with cement. Amit was found dead on a cot at his home on April 13 last year, with a live snake beside his body. His family initially suspected that he had died of a snakebite.
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.
Amardeep has been assigned prisoner number 400/2026 and moved to Barrack No.
1A, where he is housed with Sahil Shukla, who was sentenced to death by a Meerut court earlier this week in a similar murder case. 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.