Wife Among Four Arrested in Meghalaya Murder During Honeymoon, Say Police

Meghalaya police chief I Nongrang revealed Monday that Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi was killed on his honeymoon by hitmen who his wife Sonam had hired.

The DGP reported that Sonam gave herself up to police in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh and three other suspects were captured during overnight raids.

The SIT apprehended two more accused in Indore while they picked up an additional suspect from UP.

Sonam turned herself in at the Nandganj police station where authorities arrested her.

According to Nongrang the suspects acknowledged being hired by Raghuvanshi’s wife to carry out the honeymoon murder.

The current search operation in Madhya Pradesh seeks to capture additional suspects involved in the case.

Chief minister Conrad K Sangma praised the police force for solving Meghalaya murder case which had shocked both the state and the nation.

The Meghalaya police solved a major part of the Raja murder case within 7 days. The Madhya Pradesh police have arrested three attackers and a female participant has surrendered while the search for another attacker continues according to his X post.

After his honeymoon murder in Meghalaya authorities achieved a big breakthrough by apprehending his spouse Sonam along with three accomplices. According to police reports wife hired killers to execute the murder. Police teams from both Meghalaya and Indore will travel to Ghazipur to extend their investigation and transport Sonam to Meghalaya. Regional units worked together with Meghalaya Police to make a strategic arrest in Ghazipur while receiving investigative support from three state police forces.

The family of missing man Raja Raghuvanshi requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to authorize a CBI investigation after his body was found in a gorge near Cherrapunji.

At what point did information about the 'missing' couple surface?

Reports of newlyweds Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi missing since their last known location in a northeastern state during their honeymoon trip on May 23 have triggered widespread concern. Police located Raja’s body on June 2 in a gorge at Sohrarim near Cherrapunji but Sonam is still unaccounted for.