Viral Video Of Blue Drum Gift To Newly Weds Reminds Users Of Meerut Horror

NDTV

21-04-2025

A wedding in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur has become the talk of the internet after a group of guests from the groom's side gifted them a large blue plastic drum - in a stark reminder of the Meerut murder case in which a woman chopped her husband's body into pieces and hid those in a similar drum.
The presentation occurred soon after the jaimala ceremony when the couple was greeting the guests. Among the well-wishers were the groom's friends who arrived with the bulky blue drum. The groom looked visibly puzzled, while the bride laughed at the gift.
Not everyone found it funny, though. It reminded people of the Meerut incident.
The video was posted to X with the caption, "What could be a worse joke than this! It is absolutely not appropriate to remember a heinous murder as a joke on a happy occasion like a wedding."
इससे भद्दा मज़ाक और क्या हो सकता है! शादी जैसे खुशी के मौके पर एक जघन्य हत्याकांड को मज़ाक के रूप में याद करने को कतई उचित नहीं कहा जा सकता।
????उत्तर प्रदेश के जिला हमीरपुर में शादी के दौरान दोस्तों ने दूल्हा–दुल्हन को "नीला ड्रम" गिफ्ट किया। pic.twitter.com/tvGnVlWsIb
— बेसिक शिक्षा सूचना केंद्र (@Info_4Education) April 19, 2025
A user commented, "The world has become mentally ill, people have made fun of this massacre in every street, when it happens to oneself, then one realises that it is one's own."
दुनिया मानसिक रोगी हो गई है गली-गली में मजाक बना रखा है इस हत्याकांड का जब खुद पर बीती है तब पता चलता है किसी का अपना होता है तब
— A.k (@Ak9064223611421) April 19, 2025
"With friends like these, no one needs enemies," a comment read.
Aise dost ho to dushmano ki zarurat nhi ????
— Jayans Paliwal (@Jamesbond_2024) April 19, 2025
Someone wrote, "There is no dearth of idiots, they are provoking the bride."
बेवकूफों की कमी नहीं है, दूल्हन का उकसा रहें है????
— Meena Singh बंधुआ मजदूर (शिक्षामित्र) (@Msingh8953) April 19, 2025
The Meerut Cement Murder Case
On March 4, Saurabh Rajput, a 32-year-old former Merchant Navy officer, was allegedly killed by his wife Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla. According to the police investigation, Muskaan first drugged her husband's food. Then she and Sahil brutally attacked him with a butcher's knife, stabbing him in the heart multiple times and slitting his throat.
The two then chopped his body into 15 pieces and hid them in a blue drum. They sealed it with cement to prevent the odour from escaping. The murder remained undiscovered until March 18, when Saurabh's six-year-old daughter told her grandmother, "Papa is in the drum."
Postmortem reports revealed that Saurabh was beheaded, both hands were cut off at the wrists, and his legs were forcibly bent to fit inside the container. Medical examiners concluded that Saurabh died of shock and excessive bleeding.
"It was put in the drum and then filled with dust and cement. The body solidified in the cement and did not rot due to a lack of air. The smell was not extremely foul," a doctor involved in the postmortem said.
After committing the crime, Muskaan and Sahil travelled to Manali to celebrate Holi. They continued to mislead Saurabh's family by texting them from his phone. Both accused are currently in judicial custody at the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail in Meerut.
Reports suggest Muskaan has tested positive for pregnancy while in custody.