India, Oct. 22 -- A Mumbai-based influencer has filed an application in a Meerut district court seeking to take care of and provide for the 10-month-old daughter of Muskan Rastogi, a convict in Uttar Pradesh's infamous 'Blue Drum' murder case.

The court found Muskan Rastogi and her then extramarital partner, Sahil Shukla, guilty of murdering her husband, Saurabh Rajput, and concealing his dismembered body in a blue drum. Both were convicted by a Meerut court on September 30 this year and have now been sentenced to death.

Faizan Ansari, an influencer by profession, moved to court on Wednesday seeking permission to take up the education and upbringing of Rastogi's 10-month-old daughter with Shukla named Mannat, alias Radha who was born du...