Muskan’s maternal house in Brahmpuri Meerut that the family now intends to sell off and move out
Muskan’s maternal house in Brahmpuri Meerut that the family now intends to sell off and move out Muskan’s maternal house in Brahmpuri Meerut that the family now intends to sell off and move out
Now, after a Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and her lover to death for killing and dismembering her husband, Kavita Rastogi, 45, said she would not challenge the verdict. In the narrow bylanes of Brahmpuri, Meerut, where Muskan grew up, the family had become associated with the March 2025 murder of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose dismembered body was concealed in a blue plastic drum filled with cement. Kavita claimed Sahil, whom she described as a drug addict with an interest in the occult, began exercising control over her daughter in 2022. In March 2025, Muskan and Sahil killed Saurabh, dismembered his body and concealed the remains in a cement-filled drum. After more than 100 hearings and examination of 22 witnesses, the court convicted the pair on Sept 30 and sentenced them to death on Wednesday.
Won’t fight verdict. “We had practically lost her by then.
Meerut : She was the mother who told police about her own daughter’s involvement in a murder. We feel cursed,” said a neighbour. But Saurabh’s work kept him away for long periods, and the couple lived in rented accommodation without support from his family, which she said had disowned him. The mother said it had taken the family more than a year to understand what she believed had happened. “It took us time understand that Sahil had pushed her into drugs and eventually destroyed her,” she said.
“Everyone links this horrifying crime to my daughter, but few speak of Sahil, the real monster. But my child went through dark times, was a victim of circumstances too. The story that no one knows. “She disgraced this locality, forever. At the family’s corner house, Kavita, a mother of three, agreed to speak to TOI and remembered Muskan as a quiet girl who had been close to her family before she married Saurabh against her parents’ wishes. The marriage was peaceful for the first year, Kavita recalled. He had taken complete control over her. She had refused to connect with us. Now we know why. She was perhaps in a state of illusions caused by substance. Kavita informed police about the crime, leading to the investigation and arrests.
But she believed there was another side to her daughter’s story, one that had begun years before the murder.