India, March 23 -- Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla, the two accused in the Meerut murder case of merchant navy employee Saurabh Rajput, are suffering with severe drug addiction issues in jail, going into withdrawal and refusing to take any food in pursuit of acquiring some narcotics.

Both the 27-year-old accused are lodged inside the Meerut District Jail, in separate barracks for men and women.

A jail official, on condition of anonymity, described their dependency as severe, adding that additional precautions have been taken to prevent any harm to themselves or others.

Muskan, along with her lover Sahil, stabbed her husband Saurabh to death on March 4 and then chopped his body into pieces, concealing it in a drum which, the duo filled ...