India, March 21 -- Meerut murder accused Muskan Rastogi's mother, Kavita, said on Friday that her daughter would not have been in jail had she not "hid a lot of things" from her parents. Days after Saurabh Rajput's corpse was recovered from a drum, her mother today appealed to all children to "never hide anything" from their parents.

Muskan Rastogi and her alleged lover, Sahil Shukla, allegedly murdered Rajput, a merchant navy officer, as they thought he could prove to be a hindrance in their relationship and drug abuse. They chopped his body, put it in the drum and poured cement over it to hide their alleged crime.

Muskan last week confessed the murder of her husband to her parents, who made her surrender to the police. Her mother toda...