PTI
Kuwait, Jun 20: An Indian in Kuwait has been sentenced to death by a court for killing his lover and later trying to commit suicide.
Identified as Smokat S, he was given the death sentence by the criminal court for the premeditated murder of Jamona S on December 13 last year. While delivering the judgement the court gave him one month's time to file an apppeal.
The accused murdered his paramour after having sex with her in her sponsor's home.
After strangling her, he covered the victim with a blanket and left her on the roof of her sponsor's home.
The man later tried to kill himself by cutting his wrist, but his friend prevented him and the police arrested him, the Arab Times reported.