A Meerut court has sentenced Muskan Rastogi (R) and her lover Sahil Shukla (L) to death for murder
The trial involved the examination of 22 prosecution witnesses and more than 100 hearings.
Police said his body was dismembered and the remains concealed in a blue plastic drum filled with cement. The crime came to light after a foul smell emanating from the drum led to the discovery of the remains. Police alleged that Muskan and Sahil drugged him before stabbing him to death. The two were arrested after returning from a trip to Himachal Pradesh.
It also imposed fines of Rs 50,000 each under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (murder) and Rs 20,000 each under Section 238(A) for causing the disappearance of evidence. The court sentenced Muskan and Sahil to death for murdering Muskan’s husband, Saurabh Rajput, a former Merchant Navy officer, and destroying evidence.
Both appeared before the court through video conferencing.
District and sessions judge Arvind Kumar Mishra invoked the Mahabharata while pronouncing the sentence, drawing on the epic to explain the principle behind the punishment awarded to the two convicts, Chaubey said. MEERUT: Punishing the guilty in accordance with the gravity of their crime is also Dharma, a Meerut court observed on Wednesday while sentencing Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla to death in the blue drum murder case, prosecution lawyer KK Chaubey said.
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