There is news coming from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh,
that a girl named Muskan,
along with her lover, Sahil,
has brutally murdered her husband, Saurabh.
Not just that, after killing Saurabh,
they chopped him into pieces
and packed him in a blue drum filled with cement.
The dagger was also broken. They had killed him so brutally.
Even such a thick and long dagger broke.
'FROM HONEYMOON TO MURDER'
My name is Sushil Kumar.
I am the Chief Crime Reporter with Dainik Jagran.
And I've been reporting in Meerut since 2013.
On the evening of 18th March, we were preparing news as usual.
We received information from Meerut's Brahmpuri police station
that a person was murdered.
So, we sent one of our reporters to the scene.
And when he got there, he saw
that the police were carrying a drum.
And a crowd had gathered.
The body was inside the drum. It was
sealed with cement.
We got interested in it.
After that, we found out
that Muskan and her lover, Sahil,
had murdered Muskan's husband.
Muskan, along with her lover,
killed her husband.
My name is Renu Devi. I'm Saurabh's mom.
He was a good guy. He was very talented.
He was up for everything.
He was very ambitious.
He was good at studies as well.
He was very intelligent.
I am his elder brother.
He was everyone's favourite in the house.
I used to take him on my shoulders
to drop him to school and get him things.
When he passed 10th grade... You can see a bike outside.
We got it for him.
It was his favourite bike.
He liked simple food.
Like 'dal-chawal', 'kadhi-chawal',
'chole-chawal'. He liked all of that.
He never demanded paneer dishes or other things.
He liked to wear good clothes.
He liked to travel.
One of Saurabh's friends
and Muskan's family lived in the same colony.
They might have met each other there
and got into a relationship.
Saurabh's family didn't approve of this relationship.
Because their lifestyle were different.
Saurabh's dad
was a job holder.
While Muskan's dad
was a craftsman,
who made gold jewellery.
He used to work in a shop.
So, their lifestyle were different.
My brother returned in 2015.
He was stationed in Dubai-Saudi region.
He came from there.
So, he was here for 7-8 days.
After that...
Around 6:30 pm...
He was talking to mom. I was sleeping on this bed.
He talked to mom and went outside.
After going out...
Within five minutes... He might have reached the main road.
Her mom came to our house with police.
The neighbours were like, 'He just left the house.'
'How did the police come suddenly?'
She said,
'Your son eloped with my daughter.'
They were found after 2-3 days,
and the lawyer said that we'll have to get the married.
They registered their marriage in Allahabad.
Then the lawyer got it registered here.
Later, Muskan said, 'It was my plan to elope.'
'I...'
'I locked my family'
'in our house'
'and went to Delhi Chungi.'
'I called him there.'
'We went to Delhi and got married in the Arya Samaj.'
In criminology, this aspect is called...
Where your prefrontal cortex,
on the forehead, right about the nose...
That is not developed.
This is the part of the brain that develops last in a child.
When Muskan eloped, she was 16 years old.
Her brain wasn't fully developed.
At the age of 22 or 23,
it is developed. At 23 or 24. It's developed last.
The work of prefrontal cortex is to control the brain.
So, that thing, somewhere...
When it's not developed,
she can't take right decisions.
They had a daughter in 2019.
After that, she used to fight with us
and wanted to move out.
She said she didn't want to live here.
I don't know what freedom did she lack here.
She liked wearing revealing clothes
and roaming outside. We hadn't allowed that.
But she wanted
to wear skimpy clothes and roam outside.
So, she forced my brother
to move out of here.
The girl is in her prime.
She wants to see, feel and touch everything.
Her issue wasn't goal-oriented.
Her goal was to enjoy life.
Like, she she wanted to travel and have fun.
She wanted someone to spend money on her.
She wanted gifts, she wanted to travel.
That's why she got married early.
Muskan studied with Sahil till eighth grade.
Sahil was Muskan's friend.
After that...
Sahil continued his studied but Muskan left her studies.
So, they got separated.
Back then, they were just friends.
They weren't lovers.
She can't adapt as she left her studies.
That means her social behaviour is zero.
She developed antisocial behaviour.
That's why she left her studies.
She left her home, that means she had problems with her parents.
That means her childhood has been bad.
So, you can see,
her childhood has not been very good,
she left her studies...
Such people show poor and antisocial behaviour.
They are antisocial behaviour personalities.
They don't like doing anything but making mess.
They like to do things that excites them.
Like, seeing blood or kill someone
or bullying someone.
There will be a lot of complaints about her in school.
She was a misfit among the people.
She didn't belong there.
In 2019, a friend of her
added her
in one of their WhatsApp groups.
And Sahil was also a member of that WhatsApp group.
After that, Sahil and Muskan started talking.
So, Saurabh...
While talking to her,
Saurabh found about it,
and he filed for divorce.
We told Saurabh
to file for divorce as it was not right.
We told him to separate from her.
After that, we thought that divorce proceedings
were underway.
But they were still staying together.
I'm not sure how she sweet-talked him into it.
The family court asks the couple
to live together for six months and find a compromise.
They advise the couples.
If someone is going to the court,
there must be some reason, right?
One year passed.
After 2022, one year had passed and they weren't divorced yet.
He said, 'I have found'
'a good job opportunity. So, let me go.'
'I'll divorce her after coming back.'
He took Rs 250,000 from his mom and got his passport made.
Then he got his visa and he went to London.
He sent Rs 50,000 every month to Muskan.
He didn't sent us any money.
I heard it from Saurabh's friend, because of whom
they met...
We talked to him. And he said
that Saurabh had transferred Rs 1.1 million
to Muskan's account.
And he also said
that Saurabh sent money
to Muskan's family as well.
Earlier, Sahil would give the things at the gate and leave.
Later, the tenants said
that Sahil started going inside the house.
Later, he would
sit for a few hours.
Then he started spending nights there.
There have been many occasions where they spend the night together.
Her daughter's birthday is on 28th May.
And Muskan's is on the 25th.
So, he came on the 23rd.
Even Muskan went to pick him.
His friend also accompanied her.
There is a hotel named Krome nearby.
He booked a room there.
She and Saurabh danced together.
On her birthday,
on that night,
Muskan has cooked food.
She had to spike his food.
But on that day, Saurabh didn't eat.
Saurabh was heavily drunk.
So, he slept without eating.
So, she couldn't kill him on that day.
On the 26th,
he came here with his daughter.
He came on the 27th, too.
Her birthday was on the 28th.
He didn't come on that day.
Then he came on the 1st, 2nd
and 3rd. After that,
he didn't come.
And this incident happened on the 3rd.
On the 3rd, he came here to get food at 11 pm.
After coming here, he talked to our sister.
One of my sisters couldn't even see him for the last time.
I had made 'ghiya kofta' for him.
He asked me to make it. I said, okay.
Muskan spiked the 'kofta'
with some liquid.
And after eating, Saurabh felt sleepy.
Around 12 am, he was in a state of unconsciousness.
Then Muskan asked her lover, Sahil,
to come there.
Sahil placed a dagger on his chest,
and Muskan pressed it down.
And that's how they killed him.
They didn't use the word 'kill'.
They used the word 'slaughter'.
That they slaughtered him.
Even in the police interrogation,
she didn't say she killed him.
It's in the police records, too.
She said, 'I slaughtered Saurabh.'
'After that, we took his body to the bathroom.
Then with one dagger,
they severed both his hands and neck.
They wrapped the remaining parts in a polythene
and kept it under the box bed.
After that, they packed both his hands
and his head in a bag
and took it with them.
Well, this is their abnormal thinking.
When we say slaughter...
Well, slaughter
has been mentioned in the scriptures.
But there, it was of a enemy.
If we don't want to call murder as murder,
we can call it as slaughter for our satisfaction.
So, that is a fantasy element.
They thought they were very powerful
that they slaughtered their enemy and nobody can catch them.
Some people say that they took the parts for tantric rituals.
But the police investigation
shows no sign of tantric rituals.
The police said that
they took the hands and the head
so that he is not identified.
They had planned to bury it somewhere.
They couldn't execute this plan
throughout the night. That's why,
at 9 in the morning,
they came back to the room.
Then they thought of
sealing him in a drum,
and later burying it.
You can see blue drums for sale.
Most of them are blue.
Some people use it for storing flour or rice.
So, she got the drum,
and Sahil got the cement.
Then both of them
kept the hands and the head
on the drum.
They poured cement and water
and sealed the drum.
And then,
on the 4th,
they booked a cab in the evening.
First, Sahil got in.
After that, Muskan got in.
They were carrying bags.
The driver thought they were a couple.
They had booked the cab online.
Then they went to Himachal.
I asked where they wanted to go, and she said Shimla.
I drove them to Shimla at night.
Then I asked for an advance.
As we travelled some distance,
I asked for money and she said she'll transfer it.
Muskan transferred Rs 10,000 to me.
She sent Rs 10,000 through Google Pay.
She transferred it.
She was drinking in the car.
There is a city called Shamli in UP.
They brought three cans from there.
And while driving, when I looked back,
Muskan was drinking from a can.
She seemed tense at that time.
The criminalities that come to the fore are...
Being an alpha woman,
she has been dominant in relationships.
Her decisions have influenced this matter.
She definitely has no remorse.
Because if we see the chopped body parts
that was found in the drum... By looking at the victim,
if we look at the crime
or define the criminal...
That body inside the blue drum...
By looking at the body inside that blue drum, we can see...
One. This isn't a crime of passion.
This is a hate crime.
This was a hate crime against Saurabh.
She was not able to leave Saurabh
because Saurabh was not leaving her.
Saurabh might have been threatening him.
They had a bittersweet relationship.
They become distant, then come together.
Get separated again, and the come together.
And when they come together, they fight.
She had a fighting relationship with him.
And had started a love relationship with Sahil.
She has come forward
with a smart and psychopathic behaviour.
Look, Muskaan's personality was clearly...
Psychologically, we call it a narcissistic personality.
In this personality, people
don't get deeply attached in relationships.
They would get into a relationship with someone
only for their personal needs.
Here, her husband worked abroad. He was sending money.
And that money was fulfilling her financial needs.
She met Sahil.
They started taking drugs.
Perhaps taking these drugs was giving them
a mental relief. So, another need is fulfilled.
Maybe she lost some weight, she started looking good.
She fell in love with Sahil.
So, her love
and physical needs were being fulfilled by Sahil.
So, all of her needs were fulfilled.
But when her husband returned, she knew
that she couldn't meet Sahil,
and can't go out with him. And she wanted to have a good life.
She didn't want to live with her husband,
whom she didn't want anymore.
Her love for her husband had ended.
There was nothing left in that relationship except money.
We have been calling. But only messages came.
Calls were not answered.
Saurabh had shown us Sahil's house.
So, I went there, but it was locked.
I became more tense.
I told my neighbours about it.
They said I should inform the police.
On the 18th, her daughter,
Pihu, wanted to talk to her dad.
'You won't be able to talk to your dad as he is sealed in the drum.'
She said this to her daughter.
Look, if we
look from Pihu's perception, who is six years old,
her mental development was in infancy at that time.
So, if she witnessed this murder,
or if she saw her dad in the drum,
it was a very big shock for her.
And it may take years to recover from this shock.
It is possible that Pihu's mental condition was such
that seeing this, she might have been deeply shocked.
She definitely needs counselling and therapy.
This trauma will remain with her for the rest of her life.
No matter how much counselling you do,
it will be difficult to completely erase it.
But we can make Pihu resilient and tough
so that this trauma does not surface
in her own relationships and life.
According to police, Kavita Rastogi
was told by her daughter, Muskan,
that Saurabh's family killed him
and sealed his body in the drum.
After that, her dad, Pramod Rastogi,
and her mom, Kavita Rastogi,
took Muskan to the police station.
Muskan was interrogated there.
After the interrogation,
the police
nabbed her lover, Sahil.
Sahil was trying to escape.
At that time, Sahil was changing clothes in his house.
Sahil came to know that the police had
nabbed Muskan.
Muskan and Sahil were interrogated separately by the police.
They said the body is in the drum.
After that,
a crowd gathered there.
After that, the police took the drum
for post-mortem.
It was around 8:30-9, I don't remember the exact time.
After that, they cut the drum.
My brother's body was found in it.
We found
his severed head.
We also found his severed hands.
And in the same drum,
a dagger and a razor was also found.
The dagger was also broken. They had killed him so brutally.
Even such a thick and long dagger was broken.
I don't know how they did it.
They said in the police station
that they had been planning it since November.
When she came here,
she tried to distract the police a bit.
But
when we interrogated her strictly and cross-questioned her,
she couldn't give any answer.
And she gave in.
But as I said, when a person
is in denial mode, they try to distract others.
The criminals always try to distract the police
so that no one finds out their crime.
So, her behavior was also like criminals.
Sahil's mother is dead.
So, he might be grieving for her.
The City SP told in the press conference that Muskan...
Their chats found on Snapchat...
It shows
that Muskan was scared
that Sahil would leave her.
That's why she repeatedly messaged him
by impersonating his mother saying, 'Muskan is a good girl.'
'She is perfect for you.'
Sahil didn't have a mother,
so she talked to him impersonating his mother.
She used to manipulate him.
So, in a way...
She was manipulating him in a diplomatic way.
She trapped him...
I said, she was an alpha female.
So, alpha females
take control over submissive people.
And somewhere, Sahil idolised her.
But in his house, in his room,
the drawings that were found...
There were strange drawings.
When 'tantriks' saw the drawings
and the videos, they said
it seemed it was done to perform some kind of rituals.
I saw a drawing on his wall.
Some ritualistic pictures were made.
There was a figure of a rooster there.
A goat's beard...
And there was
a big nail at the bottom. It's called 'batashe ki keel'.
A ritual was performed against a particular person.
Someone with a criminal behaviour,
and if it get combined with intoxication
it becomes a lethal combination.
Because such a personality trait along with intoxication...
And with that personality,
if you have a biological problem,
if you are a narcissist, a predator personality...
Predator means...
Like, she waited,
and she carved a way...
If she can talk to him by impersonating his mother,
look at her brain functioning.
Look how smartly her brain functions.
Her future ten years might have been very dangerous.
Such people don't get caught mostly.
But somehow...
She couldn't have reached that level.
I think it's because of lack of education.
Saurabh is also not that educated.
After doing his Intermediate, he took admission,
but he dropped out.
And Muskan has only studied till eighth grade.
Sahil...
He was doing CA.
If she
was educated,
she'd have had more knowledge.
If she had studied further,
this case
wouldn't have happened.
All the cyber crimes happening in the world are being committed
by educated people.
There is no direct link between education and criminals.
Even educated people commit crimes.
Even uneducated people commit crimes.
It's about moral deterrence,
which you are taught.
There's deterrence of law and of religion.
Your upbringing.
Everything matters.
So, it's not right to particularly blame education.
Yes, education is one of the factors.
It makes us aware
about law and other things.
But there are other circumstances and factors
because of which criminals commit crime.
If you look at the police records,
ever since this case happened,
there has been many petitions regarding this.
Like, save me from my wife.
There has also been a change
in the petitions
or the complaint letters.
They use this blue-drum case as reference.
Some cases were also found to be false during police investigation.
Such allegations are false.
But people... I mean,
for the proceedings...
The speed with which the police acted...
The police
filed the chargesheet within two months.
The trial of this case is also
being conducted in a fast-track court.
No other case here
has proceeded as swiftly
as this one.
The trial is going on in the court.
And the police will ensure the sentencing by January.
I'll give you a good example.
A roti is burning.
It's burning time and again.
So, someone said,
just change the stove.
So, they change the stove.
The roti is burning again.
Now, do one thing. Change the pan.
Even after getting a new pan, the roti is burning.
Let's change the flour and see.
Still, roti is burning.
In the end, it turns out,
change the person. He doesn't know to make rotis.
That girl is eliminating things.
In this relationship, she wanted to eliminate Saurabh.
She was with Sahil now.
And in the future, she'd have eliminated Sahil as well.
We want Muskan and Sahil to be hanged
so that our lives can come back on track.
Our lives have gone off track.
We are not able to live our lives peacefully.
No here is able to eat or sleep properly.
We are not able to do anything.
The child's custody...
If there is a court procedure,
then the child's custody
will go to Saurabh's parents.
So, the thing is, nowadays, a boy and a girl,
a man and a woman are connecting with each other.
So, they know the consequences,
but still, they connect with each other.
And this is increasing day by day.
The government should make such a law
so that such things don't happen.
But these things are increasing day by day.
Like the case in Indore...
The Raja Raghuvanshi case.
His father is asking the same question to Sonam.
But Sonam is not ready to answer.
'Why did you kill him? You should have left him.'
If you loved someone else, you should have left him.
What was the need to take him so far and kill him?
Even we have the same question.
To her and her parents.
Our house feels empty.
You got everything. Everything was available.
He did so many things for us. He went to earn for himself.
We didn't even demand any money from him.
He spent all his money on her.
All I want to ask her is,
'What did you want? Why did you do this?'
I need an answer to this question from her.