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Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla Sentenced to Death in Meerut

The blue drum murder verdict has brought death sentences for both defendants, while subsequent reporting concerns a separate Meerut killing involving a staged snakebite.

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Chapters · 4

  1. 1Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla Sentenced to Death in Meerut Murder
  2. 2Meerut Court Sentences Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla to Death
  3. 3Meerut court sentences Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla to death
  4. 4Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla Sentenced to Death in Meerut

Key moments · 7

Saurabh Rajput killed by wife and her lover

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Meerut district court finds Rastogi and Shukla guilty

The Hindu ↗

Judge sentences Rastogi and Shukla to death

NDTV India ↗

Meerut judge cites Mahabharata during death sentencing

The Hindu ↗

Convicts receive new prisoner numbers and increased security

NDTV India ↗

Report describes convicts' troubled first night after sentencing

Times of India ↗

Separate Meerut murder case brings another death sentence

Indian Express ↗

Coverage by day

newest first

1 article

  1. Meerut woman, lover sentenced to death for killing her husband and leaving snake on his bed as cover-up
    The Hindu

1 article

  1. Meerut ‘snakebite’ murder case: Woman, her friend get death sentence
    Indian Express

5 articles

  1. 'Snakebite' murder: UP court cites Manusmriti while pronouncing death sentence
    Times of India Top Stories
  2. Snake Was UP Couple's Murder Alibi, Until Cops Found It Had Been Defanged
    NDTV India
  3. Two days after ‘blue drum’ verdict, another Meerut couple gets death sentence
    Indian Express
  4. Wife, lover sentenced to death for strangling husband, planting snake to fake snakebite
    India News
  5. Death penalty for Meerut woman, boyfriend who killed husband, staged it as snakebite
    India Today

2 articles

  1. 'Skipped dinner, wept': 'Blue drum' murder convicts' 1st night in jail
    Times of India
  2. Indian woman and boyfriend get death sentence in 'blue drum' murder case
    BBC News - India

19 articles

  1. ’Blue drum’ murder case: Meerut court sentences wife, partner to death
    The Hindu
  2. Killer Wife, Her Lover 'Cried Uncontrollably' After Death Sentence In Meerut Blue Drum Murder
    NDTV India
  3. Blue drum murder case: Judge's Mahabharata quote, pen gesture draw attention
    India Today
  4. Blue Drum Murder Case: Why Meerut court consider it 'rarest of the rare'? Supreme Court lawyer explains | Exclusive
    India News
  5. Muskan, lover receive death penalty in Meerut blue drum murder case: Why did judge invoke Mahabharata while sentencing?
    Mint