Meerut, March 23 -- Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla purchased alcohol, ordered a birthday cake and visited a gurdwara during their 15-day trip to Himachal Pradesh from March 4, hours after they murdered Rastogi's husband and dismembered his body in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, their cab driver, Ajab Singh, has revealed.

Rastogi and Shukla, both 27, were arrested on March 18, hours after the body of 29-year-old Saurabh Rajput was found stuffed inside a drum that was filled up with dust, cement, and water. The suspects allegedly mixed sedatives in Rajput's food before killing him on March 4, after he returned from London where he worked in the merchant navy at a US-based shipping company.

Police said Rastogi got into a relat...