Is This The Cruellest Husband in the World?

You won’t believe how he killed his wife

Suraj Kumar, a 27-year-old bank clerk hailing from South India, met his wife Uthra through a matrimonial service. These services are basically like your Tinder, but instead of preferences and personal tastes, what gets mostly advertised are caste and religion.

Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.

This article will give you a better idea about the horrors Indian youngsters go through.

Suraj’s wife, Uthra, a 25-year-old, was differently-abled. Was Suraj then the altruist who loved her with all her learning disabilities?

Not quite. Suraj’s economic condition was bleak, and he saw Uthra as his cash cow; because she came bundled with a handsome dowry.

Is dowry still the norm in India? Very much, yes. After you are done with Uthra’s fate, why don’t you come back to the horror Vismaya faced? ( article below)

Suraj Kumar, thus, put a price for Uthra’s disability at 720 grams of gold, close to 500,000 Rs (about 7000 USD), and a Maruti Suzuki sedan. The marriage happened with all its pomp and glory in 2018.

The growing demands

Uthra’s husband’s family soon ran out of love for Uthra, if they ever had something for her in the beginning.

Demands began to burgeon, as Suraj’s parents wanted money for a new car, modern furniture, appliances, college fees for Kumar’s sister, house’s renovation, and whatnot!

Uthra’s disability meant that she could not see her being used as a tool, as a means of milking more money. Uthra’s parents, though, complied with most of the requests and even paid separate money for the well-being of their daughter.

For Suraj, nothing was enough incentive to ‘spoil’ his life with Uthra. He began conjuring plans to plot the demise of his wife.

Suraj’s failed plan

It was about the time when Suraj had taken up a fascination for snakes. His YouTube history was mostly videos of snake training. He knew how deadly these snakes were and what one bite could do to his wife.

So, on February 26, 2020, Suraj bought a Russell’s Viper snake from a snake handler called Suresh for about Rs 10,000. He deliberately placed the Viper in the path of Uthra and directed her towards the snake.

Vipers are generally aggressive, and he was hoping the snake would exercise its aggression towards Uthra. Luckily for Uthra, she spotted the reptile and shouted.

Suraj’s plan had failed.

Suraj’s second attempt

Suraj figured out what had gone wrong with his idea. Uthra, incapacitated as she might be, is not naive enough to walk easily into a snake trap. He figured that his wife needed to be dormant for his idea to take off.

So, he went ahead mixing sedatives into her food, ensured Uthra was deep in sleep, and made the Viper bite her. He then opened the windows and forced the serpent out to destroy any evidence.

Uthra woke up crying in pain. Her husband played some delay tactics but eventually took her to a hospital. Uthra spent several days at the hospital.

But as her health was improving, her husband was on to a foolproof plan. It was time for him to leave Russell’s Viper.

Enter the dangerous cobra.

The cobra bites

It took Uthra 52 days to be discharged from the hospital. When she was finally allowed to leave the hospital, she went to her parent’s house.

Suraj stayed with his wife, vying for an opportunity to launch the strike.

Almost two weeks after Uthra left hospital, on May 6, 2020, Suraj found his chance. He had already acquired a venomous Cobra from the snake handler and kept it in a bag in the car’s trunk.

Suraj had made sure that the cobra was not fed for almost ten days and that the serpent would be hungry when it’s finally exposed to the skin of Uthra. He found a glass of juice as a medium to export sedatives into her body.

At night, when Uthra was in a deep sleep, Suraj took the snake from his car and threw it on Uthra’s body. But the cobra wasn’t as heartless as Suraj. Instead of biting, it just slithered away.

Suraj, having learned how to handle snakes, took it and forced its fangs on Uthra’s body.

The serpent did bite.

He then let the snake crawl under the wardrobe, but he remained awake for the rest of the night, fearing the snake might crawl its way back to him.

Suraj remained up with a hungry snake and a dead Uthra in the room for the most part of that night.

The doubts of parents

The following morning, Suraj raised alarms, put on an elaborate show, venting his ‘sorrow’ of losing his wife.

Uthra’s brother searched the room, found the cobra, and killed it. The case could have been done and dusted there, written off as another snake bite.

However, Uthra’s parents were not buying it.

The parents smelled foul play since Uthra had only survived another attack a couple of months before.

What are the odds of the same woman getting bitten by snakes in the space of a few months at different places? Remember, this was Uthra’s house now.

Also, the family figured that it would have been impossible for a snake to make its way into the home since the room had air conditioning and windows were shut.

Finding merit in the doubts of parents, an investigation was soon launched.

The investigation

Perhaps Suraj had not expected a snake bite to be investigated as thoroughly as it did. But the police dug up the carcass of the cobra which bit Uthra and found its stomach empty.

It was significant since Cobras usually take a week to digest its food. Officers figured out that the snake was deliberately starved.

Also, a cobra can only rise to one-third of its height. The serpent that bit Uthra was 152 centimeters long, meaning it could have only got upto 50 centimeters at best, not long enough to climb through the window. Also, the air holes were sealed, ruling out the possibility of any other means of entry.

Suraj deleting his call history with the snake handler was not going to help, as police dug up one digital evidence after the other, showing his fascination for snake training videos and conversations with the handler.

But the officers needed scientific evidence, or Suraj was walking away. They needed clarity on Suraj’s modus operandi.

The investigative officers, in an attempt to recreate the crime scene, threw a cobra to a mannequin similar to Uthra’s weight and dimensions. The snake crawled away. It was then tempted to bite at a chicken leg piece, but the snake did not take the offer.

Finally, the officers forced the cobras’ fangs into the dummy, just like Suraj did.

They observed that when the fangs were forced, the snake did bite, and the gap between the two teeth of the cobra was more than 2 centimeters, just like the fatal bite on Uthra’s skin. On a normal bite, this gap would be less than 2 centimeters.

Several more scientific evidence from officers of different expertise were gathered, and Suraj’s fate was sealed.

Suraj had no means to escape from this now. He soon confessed.

Where is Suraj now?

Suraj Kumar was given 17 years of rigorous imprisonment, two life terms for attempting to murder his wife. He is also supposed to pay a sum of Rs 5.85 lakhs to the parents of Uthra. Many people were unhappy that Suraj did not get a death sentence.

It was after the birth of a child that Suraj grew uninterested in Uthra. It was as if everything he wanted out of her- a child and money were there. She had become expendable for him.

Uthra’s two-year-old son still recognizes his mother from her photo and shouts “Uthra Amma.”(translates to Uthra mom)

Someday, someone might tell him that his mother was a loving and caring person.

Do you wonder how people can be cruel as Suraj? Here is the story of a mother/professor/ who had also been a serial killer nobody knew.

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