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  "id": 14931799,
  "title": "Two days after ‘blue drum’ verdict, another Meerut couple gets death sentence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/two-days-after-blue-drum-verdict-another-meerut-couple-gets-death",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T10:43:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/meerut-couple-gets-death-sentence-for-staging-murder-as-snakebite-10924544/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Two days after the verdict in the \"blue drum\" murder case, a court in Meerut has sentenced another couple to death. Ravita Kashyap, aged 30, and Amardeep, 23, have been given the death penalty for the murder of Ravita's husband, Amit Kashyap, and the staging of his death as a snakebite. In the previous case, Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla were also sentenced to death for killing Muskan's husband, Saurabh Rajput. His body, dismembered, was found in a blue drum filled with liquid cement at their residence last year. Ravita and Muskan share the same cell, Barrack 2B, in the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail where they are currently held.",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Raja Raghuvanshi Murder Case: Mother Reiterates Death Penalty For Sonam Raghuvanshi, Five Other Accused After Court Convicts Meerut's Muskan In Blue Drum Case | VIDEO",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/raja-raghuvanshi-murder-case-mother-reiterates-death-penalty-for",
        "published": "2026-10-16T09:37:31.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}