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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Woman in India handed death penalty for poisoning boyfriend

File image: Kerala police say their investigation was confounded by the perpetrators own attempts to mislead them - (AFP via Getty Images)

A woman in India’s southern state of Kerala has been sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend by poisoning him, becoming the youngest and only second woman in the state to be handed capital punishment.

SS Greeshma, 24, was convicted of poisoning her boyfriend Sharon Raj in October 2020 by making him drink a pesticide-laced drink under the pretext of giving him a traditional medicinal concoction.

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