Two weeks after a Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi, 26, and Sahil Shukla, 28, to death for the murder of Muskan’s husband, Saurabh Rajput, a long shadow still hangs over the rented house where his dismembered body was found.

Now the landlord, Ompal Singh, 72, is knocking on the police’s door, asking them to unseal the portion of the property where the couple lived in Meerut’s Brahmpuri area, and has also urged Saurabh’s family to come and take away his belongings.

Saurabh’s body was found last year inside a blue drum filled with liquid cement at the rented house he shared with Muskan. The house has remained sealed since Muskan’s arrest in March last year. On October 14, the court handed down the death sentence to Muskan and her lover Sahil, who lived a short distance from the house. Both are lodged in Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail.

Now, the landlord wants the house reopened.…