First given milk laced with sleeping pills, then bitten by a snake: Inside the Meerut murder plot
What initially appeared to be an accidental snakebite death has now turned out to be a meticulously planned murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, with police alleging that a school operator was first drugged with sleeping pills before a highly venomous snake was used to kill him. A 32-year-old Meerut school operator was allegedly murdered by his wife and her lover, who staged the crime as a snakebite with the help of two snake charmers. (Representational Photo/Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times) Police have arrested four people, including the victim’s wife, her alleged lover and two snake charmers, in connection with the murder of Atul Kumar Panwar, whose body was found at his rented home in J-Block Colony in Hastinapur on Friday morning, HT reported earlier. According to investigators, Panwar was allegedly murdered by his wife, Damini, and Tushar, a bus driver employed at the couple’s school, who attempted to pass off the killing as a fatal snakebite. Also Read: 24-year-old woman shot after rejecting married man’s proposal in Meerut How the murder was planned Investigators said Atul was …








