Shillong: Sonam Raghuvanshi, one of the accused in the murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, is expected to land at Guwahati airport around 2:45 pm on June 10. She will then be taken to Meghalaya for further investigation and legal proceedings, as the state has secured a seven-day transit custody.
The Shillong Police will transport Sonam from Ghazipur to Patna by road, and from Patna, she will be flown to Guwahati on a commercial flight. After landing, she will be taken to Shillong by road. A total of three accused have been sent to the transit custody of the Meghalaya police for seven days.
Sonam was produced before a local court in Ghazipur on June 9 night for transit remand permission. The court proceedings continued till late in the night. A total of five persons have been arrested in the case so far. Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife had gone missing while vacationing at Sohra in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district on May 23. Raghuvanshi’s body was found in a gorge near the Weisawdong waterfalls on June 2.
Sonam was arrested from ‘Kashi Dhaba’ on the Varanasi-Ghazipur main road. She was sent to the Sadar Hospital for treatment and then kept at a one-stop centre, which provides assistance to women in distress. A team of Meghalaya Police took Sonam into custody from the one-stop centre.
Sonam’s brother, Govind, had reached Ghazipur from Meghalaya and said, “If she is guilty, she should be hanged. Whatever the government decides, we will accept it.” He added that he had not met Sonam and had been searching for her with the police in Meghalaya.
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