Days after the body of Raja Raghuvanshi was found in a gorge in Meghalaya on June 2, the murder mystery has been solved by the police.
Meghalaya Police said that Raja Raghuvanshi, the newly married man from Indore, was allegedly killed by men, hired by his wife, during their honeymoon in the hilly state.
Raja’s wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, surrendered before the Nandganj Police Station in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, while three other assailants were arrested in overnight raids. Of the three arrested men, two are from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore and one from Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Uma Raghuvanshi, Raja Raghuvanshi’s mother, demanded strict punishment of the killers behind the murder and said that if Sonam loved her husband, she wouldn’t have left him to die.
#WATCH | Indore, Madhya Pradesh: On Sonam Raghuvanshi found near Ghazipur, UP, Raja Raghuvanshi’s mother Uma Raghuvanshi says, “… If Sonam loved my son, she wouldn’t have left my son to die. How is she safe?… All people behind this should be strictly punished… I don’t know… pic.twitter.com/jZj6Ce67p7
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“If Sonam loved my son, she wouldn’t have left my son to die. How is she safe?… All people behind this should be strictly punished… I don’t know who Raj Kushwaha is… Sonam planned their honeymoon… They didn’t book their return tickets,” the mother said.
Raghuvanshi and his wife went missing while vacationing in Sohra area in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district on May 23.
His body was found in a gorge on June 2, while a search for his wife was underway.
One person was picked up from UP, and another two accused were apprehended from Indore by the SIT, the DGP said.Sonam surrendered at the Nandganj police station in UP, and was subsequently arrested, the police said.
Nongrang said the arrested men had revealed that the wife had hired them to kill Raghuvanshi.
On May 24, their scooter was found abandoned at a cafe along the road from Shillong to Sohra, following which the search for them began. Raghuvanshi was found dead in a gorge near Weisawdong Falls on June 2. Sonam had been missing since then. A Meghalaya Police special investigation team (SIT) headed by an SP and assisted by four DSPs was probing the matter.
