Meerut: A woman and her lover allegedly killed a Merchant Navy officer and dismembered his body before sealing the remains in a drum filled with cement, Uttar Pradesh Police said on Tuesday.
According to Dynamite News correspondent, the decomposed body of the Saurabh Rajput was recovered from Indira Nagar area.
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The 29-year-old Navy officer was murderred due to an extramarital affair between his wife, identified as, Muskaan Rastogi and her lover, Sahil Shukla. Both the accused have been arrested by the police.
He and Muskaan Rastogi tied the knot in 2016. It was love marriage. Saurabh quit his Merchant Navy job to spend more time with his wife.
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According to the media reports, Muskaan mixed sleeping pills in his food. Once he fell asleep, she and Sahil allegedly murdered him with a knife. Later, they chopped up the body into multiple pieces and put them in a drum and sealed it with wet cement.
Saurabh's famliy filed a police complaint when he did not pick up their call for long. He was returned to India from London.
