Meerut Murder Case: How Accused Muskan Rastogi Spent Her First Night in Jail | Skipped Food, Other Details

Meerut Murder Case: Sources at the jail confirmed that Muskan Rastogi, from Meerut, who with her lover Sahil Shukla confessed to murdering and dismembering her husband Saurabh Rajput, spent a disturbed night on Tuesday in Chaudhary Charan Singh district jail here, in complete turmoil.

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Viresh Raj Sharma, senior jail superintendent, said, "Muskan and her lover, Sahil Shukla, were brought to the jail around 6 pm on Wednesday. Muskan was placed in the women's barrack , while Sahil was assigned to the men's barrack."

"Muskan remained silent and did not interact with anyone. She also did not eat the provided food," he added.

While Muskan reportedly cried throughout the night, the jail superintendent remained unavailable for comment.

Sources added that both Muskan and Sahil wanted to be accommodated in adjacent barracks. On Wednesday, both were produced before the chief judicial magistrate and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. Outside the court, they were assaulted by a bunch of lawyers who beat them up. In the scuffle, Sahil's clothes were torn apart and police had to intervene to save them.

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Rajput's body, which had been dismembered and placed inside a cement-filled drum, was brought home postmortem, and cremation took place Wednesday night.

The investigation further revealed that Muskan and Sahil were childhood friends who had been studying from Class 1 to Class 8 together.

Three years after Muskan's marriage to Saurabh, they reignited their lost love in 2019, thanks to a WhatsApp group formed by a common classmate.

Their very first meeting was at a school party organized by this WhatsApp group in a mall in Meerut, where they managed to seal their budding affair.

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