Overview

• Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla remain in judicial custody as police await evidence from Himachal Pradesh to reconstruct the crime scene.
• The murder involved drugging, stabbing, and dismembering Saurabh Rajput, whose body was sealed in a cement-filled blue drum, a detail widely referenced on social media.
• Religious leader Dhirendra Shastri condemned the crime, linking it to declining family values and cultural shifts, and called for a return to traditional principles.
• A separate incident in Meerut, where a woman threatened her husband with a similar fate, has drawn parallels to the Rajput case, underscoring its societal impact.
• Public discourse around the case remains intense, with social media flooded with references to the blue drum and debates about morality and cultural influences.