Meerut Murder Case: Wife, Lover Kill Merchant Navy Officer, Hide Body in Drum in Indiranagar

A 35-year-old Saurabh Rajput was killed by his wife and lover in the Indiranagar area of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on March 4, an Uttar Pradesh police officer on Wednesday. Rajput was working in London as a merchant navy officer and flew back to India to celebrate his wife Muskan's birthday.

After killing her husband Saurabh, the accused wife, Muskan Rastogi and her lover, Sahil Shukla alias Mohit, dismembered the body, put it in a drum and sealed it with cement, police said. The decomposed body of the victim was recovered 15 days later on Tuesday (March 18) from a rented house.

SP Ayush Vikram Singh said, "A person named Saurabh Rajput, working in merchant Navy, came home on March 4 and had been missing since then. On the basis of suspicion, his wife Muskan and her partner Sahil were called for questioning."

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"During the questioning, Sahil confessed that on March 4, he and Muskan stabbed Saurabh to death. They dismembered the body, put it in a drum and sealed it with cement. The police have recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem," he added.

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Sahil and Muskan have been arrested and an FIR has been registered. They will be produced before the court on Wednesday. Further legal action is underway," said SP.

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Accused wife Muskan and Saurabh had married in 2016. Family members were not happy and did not agree to the marriage, due to which they stayed at the rented house. The couple had a six-year-old daughter. According to the TOI report, lover Sahil and Muskan killed Saurabh on March 4 and left for a trip to the hill station. 

Meanwhile, Muskan misled Saurabh’s family by pretending he was alive. Muskan was using Saurabh's mobile and was messaging his family to avoid suspicion while ignoring their repeated requests to speak to him. Their crime was exposed when the police recovered Saurabh’s body from the drum.