Politics
Meerut blue drum convicts challenge Rs 50,000 death case
Hindustan Times·
Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla have appealed in the Allahabad High Court against conviction and death sentences in the Saurabh Rajput murder case. The Meerut court convicted them on September 30 and sentenced them to death on October 14, with a Rs 50,000 fine each. A division bench is listed next week. They say the case rested on circumstantial evidence.
Prism
What It Means For You
- The death sentences are not final while the high court appeals are pending.
- The convicts also seek acquittal on charges of causing the disappearance of evidence.
- The next listing will be the first high court airing of their challenge to the Meerut orders.
What's Happening
- The appeals seek quashing of the September 30 conviction and October 14 death sentences.
- Appellants say the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt under BNS provisions.
- They contend the trial court overlooked established legal principles on circumstantial proof.
What the trial court already decided
- Rajput's body was found in a blue plastic drum filled with cement and concrete in Meerut's Brahmpuri area.
- The case is widely known as the blue drum murder.
- Both convicts were sentenced together on October 14 after the September 30 guilty findings.
all-news
