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Death Penalty In Blue Drum Murder: Status Of Shraddha Walkar And Other Gruesome Cases
- •A Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla to death for the March 2025 blue drum murder of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput.
- •In the Shraddha Walkar case from 2022, Aaftab Amin Poonawala is on trial for allegedly chopping her body into 35 pieces and disposing of them across Delhi.
- •Sahil Gehlot was charged with strangling Nikki Yadav in 2023 and hiding her body in a refrigerator at his family dhaba before marrying another woman.
- •Rajesh Gulati, who murdered his wife Anupama in 2010 and cut her body into 72 pieces stored in a deep freezer, was sentenced to life in 2017.
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A Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her partner Sahil Shukla to death for the March 2025 murder, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence regarding merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput.
The trial for Aaftab Amin Poonawala in the 2022 Shraddha Walkar murder case is actively underway at a Delhi Saket Court with testimonies from forensic experts and DNA analysts. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police filed a comprehensive chargesheet against Sahil Gehlot and co-conspirators in the 2023 Nikki Yadav murder case, and the trial is progressing as the court examines key prosecution witnesses.
Software engineer Rajesh Gulati was convicted and handed a life sentence by a CBI court in 2017 for murdering his wife Anupama in 2010 and hiding her body parts in a deep freezer. The judiciary has consistently rejected his recent bids for bail or premature release due to the brutal nature of the crime.
