Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla, who were awarded the death penalty by a Meerut court for killing her husband, appeared to be in a “state of shock”, advocate Krishan Kumar Dubey said on Wednesday.
One can imagine the mental state of someone facing the death penalty,” he said, news agency ANI reported. “The entire nation was watching; the eyes of the public were fixed on what punishment the perpetrators of this crime would receive. They appeared to be in a state of shock; they were stunned. “Both have been sentenced to death for the crime. It is a historic verdict,” Dubey added. “The primary basis was the nature of the murder itself: she killed her husband—whom she had married out of love—and then dismembered his body into three parts for disposal, hiding the remains in a blue drum. It was a meticulously planned conspiracy and strategy. She executed the murder with a calm and composed mind. “This is a significant verdict among the country’s court rulings; a woman being sentenced to death is, in itself, a precedent-setting event… Regarding her daughter, she can stay with her mother for six years.”
They have been ordered to pay a fine of ₹ 50,000 under Section 302 and ₹ 20,000 under Section 238A.
Consequently, the death penalty was the appropriate punishment for such a premeditated killing,” the advocate said.
