India, Oct. 24 -- The two convicts in the blue drum murder case - Muskan Rastogi and her partner Sahil Shukla - have approached the Allahabad High Court challenging their death sentence by a Meerut court.

A division bench of the high court is likely to hear the matter next week.

The court had convicted the two on September 30 for the murder of Muskan's husband Saurabh Rajput, a former merchant navy officer, and for attempting to conceal his body. The death penalty was given on October 14.

The lawyer said both Sahil and Muskan had consented to appoint him as their counsel, following which the lower court's verdict was challenged. In their appeal, the two convicts described the trial court's verdict as illegal and arbitrary and urged the...