Muskan Rastogi, her lover Sahil Shukla sentenced to death in blue drum murder case

MEERUT: A Meerut court on Wednesday sentenced Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla to death for murdering Saurabh Rajput, a former Merchant Navy officer and Rastogi’s husband, whose dismembered remains were concealed in a blue plastic drum.The court had convicted the two on September 30 of murder and destruction of evidence after a trial spanning around 13 months, 126 hearings and statements from 22 prosecution witnesses.The prosecution had sought capital punishment, arguing that the crime fell within the “rarest of rare” category.The case came to light in March last year after Rajput’s remains were discovered inside the drum at his house in Meerut’s Brahmpuri locality.How the murder unfoldedRajput, 35, had returned to Meerut from London in late February 2025 and he was killed on March 4.Police alleged that Rastogi and Shukla drugged Rajput before stabbing him to death.