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The five-year-old daughter of the Meerut woman, who killed her husband with her lover's help, reportedly told neighbours that her father was inside the drum. The claim was made by the mother of victim, Saurabh Rajput.
The Meerut woman, who allegedly killed her husband with the help of her lover,had sent misleading messages to the victim's family to pretend that he was still alive. Chats accessed by India Today TV revealed that Muskan Rastogi posed as her husband Saurabh Rajput and sent messages to his sister, in which the two talked about going home for Holi and also exchanged greetings for the festival. A few days later Saurabh's sister sensed something mysterious and called her brother several times. However, the calls went unanswered.
Furthermore, Saurabh's mother claimed that her five-year-old granddaughter knew something was wrong as she told neighbours that his father is inside the drum. "Papa drum mein hain (Papa is inside the drum)," the daughter of Saurabh and Muskan told neighbours, as claimed by the victim's mother.
"She (the daughter of Saurabh and Muskan) might be aware of this, as the neighbours told us that she (the daughter of Saurabh and Muskan) said that 'papa has been kept in drum'...She (the daughter) might have seen something, then only she was saying so," Saurabh's mother told news agency ANI.
She also alleged that Muskan's family was aware of the entire incident, and they consulted a lawyer before approaching the police to inform them that their daughter had killed Saurabh.
"They informed the police...As soon as the police came, by the time she (Muskan) reached her mother's house to tell them...Her mother knew everything prior...But to mislead things, she (Muskan's mother) said that she (Muskan) reached them to tell them that she had killed him (Saurabh)...Her (Muskan) mother met some lawyer and reached court. Later, the police came and took the family (of Muskan) with them... They all (the family of Muskan) will be hanged to death along with that boy (Sahil)," Saurabh's mother told ANI.
According to the police, Saurabh was last seen on March 4, the day he was allegedly murdered. On that night, Muskan allegedly mixed sedatives with Saurabh's food, rendering him unconscious. Then, she called her lover, identified as Sahil Shukla, to the house. The duo then stabbed Saurabh in the chest with a butcher's knife before slitting his throat. To make disposing of the body easier, Muskan and Sahil chopped off Saurabh's hands. They bought a large plastic drum, cement and sand from a nearby market the next day, and sealed the victim's body inside the drum, and hid it in Muskan and Saurabh's house.
After committing the gruesome murder, Muskan and Sahil reportedly left for holiday to a hill station. Locals had noticed that she locked the house and told neighbours about going on a trip to Himachal Pradesh with her husband. This is the period when Muskan sent misleading messages from Saurabh's phone to his sister to cover her tracks and avoid suspicion.
The incident came to light after Muskan's mother approached the police, revealing that her daughter had confessed to the crime. Upon questioning, Muskan and Sahil confessed to stabbing Saurabh to death.
Saurabh had recently returned to Meerut from London, where he worked. Police revealed that he told his family he was in the Merchant Navy, but he actually worked in a bakery in the English capital. Saurabh and Muskan had a love marriage in 2016. The couple have been living in a rented house with their five-year-old daughter for the past three years.
Papa is in drum, Meerut man's daughter told neighbours after wife killed him
The five-year-old daughter of the Meerut woman, who killed her husband with her lover's help, reportedly told neighbours that her father was inside the drum. The claim was made by the mother of victim, Saurabh Rajput.
