NEW DELHI: Muskan Rastogi and his lover Sahil Shukla It seemed to have planned an escape made following its shocking crime. The duo, accused of murdering the husband of Muskan, former officer of the merchant navy Saurabh RajputHe tried to evade the authorities fleeing Himachal Pradesh immediately after the horrible act. On March 4, Rajput was drugged, stabbed, dismembered, and his remains hid into a drum full of cement in a spoiled murder plot.
‘He appeared as a husband and wife’
Immediately after the murder, the couple moved away from Meerut and arrived in Kasol, in Himachal Pradesh, where they registered at a local hotel on March 10. During their six -day stay, they maintained an unusually low profile.
According to the hotel operator, the couple appeared as a husband and wife and remained isolated in their room, rarely ventured, as reported by PTI. They avoided the interactions with the staff, rejected routine cleaning and left the room only once a day in a private car.
‘He asked the driver to bring a cake’
According to PTI sources, Muskan’s online conversations and audio exchanges with the taxi driver, who transported her already her lover to Himachal Pradesh, were widely shared on social networks.
“One of the videos revealed that Muskan had sent a voice message to the driver through WhatsApp, asking him to bring a cake,” said the police.
The calculated silence of Muskan and Sahil did little to disguise their frantic cover -up attempts. His actions were designed to create an illusion of normality; Upon leaving, the hotel operator who returned from Manali on their way to Uttar Pradesh informed casually.
Meanwhile, back in Meerut, a complaint from Rajput’s family finally put the wheels of justice in motion. The case won impulse when Muskan’s father, Pramin Rastogi, forced his daughter to confess the horrible details of the murder while he was in a scooter to the police station. It arose that Muskan, under coercion and influence, had participated in the murder with Sahil, his accomplice who supposedly manipulated her to commit the unthinkable.
Post Mortem reveals chilling details
Saurabh Rajput’s autopsy revealed shocking details about his murder. His head was cut, both hands were amputated and their legs were bent back, which indicates an attempt to fit the body into a drum. The autopsy confirmed that it was stabbed three times in the heart, causing bleeding and severe shock. After dismembering his body, he was sealed in a drum full of cement, preserving it. The body had to be thoroughly recovered when the drum was full of cement.
Police investigations soon discovered that the body, dismembered and sealed in a cement drum, had been recovered from a house, which led to the arrest of Muskan and Sahil on March 18. During the questions, Sahil, according to the reports, confessed that on the night of the murder he had instructed Muskan: “You have to kill Saurabh if we are going to start a new life.” She allegedly directed her to sit in her unconscious husband’s chest and, when she doubted, she guided her hand while stabbing him in his heart three times.
Adding another layer to the case, the neighbors recalled Sahil’s mysterious behavior; They often saw it with Kurtas adorned with ‘Mahakal’ inscriptions and was known for their lonely habits, such as feeding street cats and keeping their room covered in the dark.
Muskan’s mother, Kavita, expressed her anguish and regretted that her daughter has never trusted her, attributing Muskan’s secret to the possibility of being influenced by drugs or other unleashed factors.
