Shillong: A special investigation team of the Meghalaya Police will produce Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of orchestrating her husband Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder, before a local court in Shillong on Wednesday (June 11), officials said.
Sonam was brought to Shillong by Meghalaya police on Tuesday night after surrendering to authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur.
She was taken to Ganesh Das Hospital in Shillong on Wednesday (June 11) morning for a routine medical examination.
The four other accused — Akash Rajput, Vishal Singh Chauhan, Raj Singh Kushwaha, and Anand — are also expected to be produced before a court in Shillong.
Meghalaya Police, which codenamed the investigation as ‘Operation Honeymoon’, had collected evidence from the residences and other places frequented by the accused in Indore and Ghazipur on Tuesday.
“We have collected additional evidence from the homes of Sonam and other accused involved in the murder of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi in both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh,” a senior police officer told a news agency.
The SIT has secured a six-day remand for the accused persons from Indore and three days for Sonam, the prime accused in the murder plot.
The SIT has been tasked with “reconstructing the events leading to the murder” and ensuring that it is a “water-tight case”, the police officer added.
According to the SIT, Sonam took a local taxi to reach Guwahati before boarding a train.
Her accomplices – the three arrested accused – also took a tourist taxi to the station in Guwahati, where they boarded a train to Indore.
“Sonam actually took a local taxi from Mawkdok and then hopped on a local train from Guwahati. She kept changing trains on her way to Indore,” East Khasi Hills district Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem said.
However, it is still not clear how she landed in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, hometown of her alleged boyfriend, police said.
Sonam, a 24-year-old woman from Indore, had allegedly orchestrated the murder of her husband — Raja Raghuvanshi, during their honeymoon in the scenic town of Sohra in Meghalaya.
Raja was killed by men allegedly hired by Sonam, who went ‘missing’ and surfaced in UP’s Ghazipur where she surrendered at the Nandganj police station after the arrest of three assailants in overnight raids.
