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Meerut Blue Drum Murder: Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla Sentenced to Death
- •A Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla to death for the murder of Merchant Navy officer Saurabh Rajput.
- •Saurabh Rajput was drugged, stabbed to death, and his dismembered body parts were sealed inside a blue plastic drum with cement and sand.
- •The accused fled to Himachal Pradesh after the crime and tried to mislead the family using the victim's mobile phone.
- •The breakthrough came when the couple's six-year-old daughter told neighbors that her father was inside the drum.
- •District Judge Arvind Kumar Mishra delivered the verdict after 126 hearings and the testimonies of 22 witnesses.
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The Meerut blue drum murder case involves the March 3, 2025, murder of Merchant Navy officer Saurabh Rajput in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. His wife, Muskan Rastogi, and her lover, Sahil Shukla, were convicted and sentenced to death by District Judge Arvind Kumar Mishra after 126 hearings and 22 witness testimonies.
According to the prosecution, Muskan Rastogi spiked her husband Saurabh Rajput's food with sedatives at their Meerut home on March 3, 2025, after which Sahil Shukla arrived and they stabbed him to death. They then dismembered the body, placed it inside a large blue plastic drum, and sealed it with a wet mixture of sand, water, and cement to hide the odor.
The crime came to light on March 17, 2025, when relatives and authorities arrived at the home and discovered the remains inside the sealed drum after a child mentioned it. The case was proven through circumstantial, physical, and technical evidence, including local shopkeeper testimonies of selling the drum and cement, along with call detail records and mobile tower locations placing Sahil at the scene and tracking their joint travel to Himachal Pradesh.
