Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the murder of her husband and Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi in Meghalaya last month, has been brought to Shillong. She will be produced in a local court later on Wednesday.
Sonam and four other accused in the case are in a three-day transit remand with Meghalaya police.
The 24-year-old woman was placed under arrest after she surrendered before the Uttar Pradesh Police in Ghazipur on June 9. She was taken to Bihar’s Patna on Tuesday evening and then flown to Kolkata before being put on a flight to Guwahati at 9.20 pm.
On early Wednesday morning, Sonam was brought to the Ganesh Das Hospital in Shillong for a medical examination.
The other four accused—Raj Kushwaha, Vishal Chauhan, Akash Rajput and Anand Kurmi—have also been brought to Shillong separately. They will also be produced before the court later in the day.
The Meghalaya Police, which is probing the case under the code name ‘Operation Honeymoon’, have collected evidence from the residences and other places frequented by the accused in Indore and Ghazipur.
The Special Investigation Team has secured a six-day remand for the accused persons from Indore and a three-day remand for Sonam.
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Sonam was surrendered before the UP police on Monday, days after her husband’s body was recovered from a deep gorge in Meghalaya’a East Khasi Hills district on June 2. The couple, who were on a honeymoon in the northeast state, had gone “missing” on May 23 after checking out a homestay in the area.
According to police, Sonam allegedly plotted her husband’s murder with her lover and hired three men to execute the crime. She travelled back to Indore after Raja’s murder and stayed in the city for three days in a rented flat.
"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 told news agency PTI.
However, it is not immediately clear how she reached UP’s Ghazipur, the home town of her alleged boyfriend.