Meerut Murder Case: In a shocking revelation, the officials said that Muskaan Rastogi, the woman who brutally killed her Merchant Navy officer husband, fraudulently acquired the sleeping pills used in the murder by tampering the latter’s prescription to purchase the drugs, reported NDTV.
A Merchant Navy officer- Saurabh Rajput- from Meerut was murdered, chopped up and the 15-odd pieces of his body were put into a drum and sealed with cement, the police said. The investigation into the case brought to fore an extramarital affair between Saurabh Rajput’s wife Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla.
The officials said that Muskaan had purchased the pills from Usha Medical Store, which was raided on Sunday as part of the probe.
Meerut drug inspector Piyush Sharma told the news outlet that they were investigating how she got the medicine. He said they are verifying the records of all sales over the past two years. He said antidepressants are sold based on prescriptions, and medical stores have to maintain a record of such sales.
The owner of the store told the news outlet that Muskan had shown the prescription to them on her mobile phone. He said the medicine was sold to her after following rules and regulations.
What Post-Mortem Revealed?
The post-mortem report of former merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput has revealed gory details of how brutally he was killed and how his body was chopped into pieces.
Both accused had allegedly repeatedly stabbed Saurabh until life was drained from him on March 4, the police said
The 29-year-old officer’s head was severed from his body, both hands were cut off from the wrist. His legs also bent backwards, suggesting that the duo had made an attempt to compress the body in the drum, according to the autopsy report.
Shock and excessive bleeding have been said as the cause of the death in the report.
The doctors who carried out the post-mortem said that the officer was stabbed in the heart with extreme force thrice.
“The blows from the sharp long knife pierced deep inside the heart,” one of the doctors said.
Saurabh Rajput’s Brutal Murder
Saurabh Rajput and Muskaan Rastogi married in 2016 for love after which the Merchant Navy officer left his job to spend more time with his wife. He also distanced his family for her. In In 2019, Saurabh found out that Muskaan was having an affair with his friend Sahil which led to tension between the couple. Eventually, Saurabh decided to rejoin the Merchant Navy.
Saurabh’s daughter turned six on February 28 for which her father returned home from London. Muskaan and Sahil had decided to murder Saurabh, as per their statement to the police. Muskaan mixed sleeping pills in Saurabh’s food on March 4 and once he was asleep, she and Sahil murdered him with a knife. Following this, Muskaan and Sahil chopped up the body, put the pieces in a drum and sealed it with wet cement in order to dispose of the body.
