Durga Puja pandals and melas usually follow the same template almost everywhere in India: neon lights, a Ferris wheel with a few safety measures, probably a haunted house and scores of people.
The two dosed Rajput with sleeping pills, stabbed him three times with a knife and then used a razor on his throat. The pieces were put in a blue drum, which was sealed with wet cement. Read: Muskaan Rastogi Gets Death.
They then cut the body into 15 pieces. The committee members learnt of the court’s verdict on October 15 and decided to bring the subject into their tableau.
The Meerut “blue drum” case returned to the headlines after a court in Meerut gave its verdict 590 days after Muskan Rastogi, with the help of her lover Sahil Shukla, murdered her husband Saurabh Rajput, a merchant navy officer. What Husband’s Family Said On Daughters’ Future Shivam Chaudhary, a member of the organising committee, said this year’s theme differs from previous years. He said they were satisfied with the verdict and, that same day, hung the effigies of Muskan and Sahil from electricity poles in the middle of the road.
