As the police investigate the details of merchant navy Saurabh Rajput's murder, allegedly by his wife Muskan Rastogi and her lover, Sahil Shukla it has come to light that Rastogi had tampered with Rajput’s prescription to purchase sleeping pills. This was a part of the plot to kill and dismember Rajput's body in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, earlier this month.
On Sunday, officials raided Usha Medical Store where Rastogi bought the pills.
Police Check Records Of Past Two Years
According to NDTV, Meerut drug inspector Piyush Sharma reportedly said that they found that she had brought the pill from the store. They searched through the sale recording and gathered details about the drugs that were bought from the store by the accused.
“We are trying to ascertain if the medicine warranted a prescription before purchase or if it could be sold over the counter," Meerut drug inspector Piyush Sharma told NDTV. Sharma stated that records of all sales from the past two years was under scrutiny.
"In case of any violations, a case will be filed. The shop's licence may be cancelled. Antidepressants like sleeping pills are sold on the basis of prescriptions and medical stores have to maintain a record of such sales," he added.
Meanwhile, the store owner, Amit Joshi, admitted to buying medicines from the story but he said that she had shown a prescription on her mobile phone after she was handed over the pills.
“We do not sell such medicines in the absence of a prescription," Joshi added.
According to police, Rajput was drugged and then fatally stabbed on March 4, after which his body was dismembered and sealed in a cement-filled drum. Following this, Muskan and Sahil misled his family by sending messages from his phone while vacationing in Himachal Pradesh.
The crime came to light on March 18, leading to their arrest.
Doctors who conducted the post-mortem stated Rajput had been stabbed three times in the heart with extreme force.
Muskan inflicted the wounds, severing Rajput’s neck and cutting his palms. The body was then divided into four parts to fit inside the drum, as per the medical team’s report, which also detailed the disturbing efforts made to hide the crime.
They put the parts in a drum and then filled it with dust and cement. The body solidified in the cement and did not rot due to lack of air. It was needed to cut open, and the hardened cement was painstakingly removed to retrieve the body in the drum.
Muskan and Saurabh Rajput married in 2016 despite opposition from his family, following a relationship, and had a six-year-old daughter. According to the police, Muskan and Sahil had known each other since school and reconnected through a WhatsApp group in 2019.