Four people, including wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, have been detained in connection with the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case. Sonam was apprehended in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur and is alleged to have hired killers to murder her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi. The couple went missing on May 23, and Raja's body was later found in a gorge. Meghalaya police, with NDRF assistance, conducted a major operation to solve the case.
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00:00News is coming in and this is murder most foul it's a honeymoon murder plot which was hatched
00:06across three states we're telling you about the honeymoon in couple murder mystery of the victim
00:11here Raja Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya this is where all of these places where the murder
00:17was planned and executed the murder took place in Meghalaya the conspiracy was hatched in Indore
00:24two accused were caught from Uttar Pradesh one was arrested from Lalitpur Sonam surrendered in Ghazipur
00:31in Uttar Pradesh
00:33Amritanshi Joshi getting us more details in that story from Bhopal and Aparamita Das joining us
00:44from Shilong at this point in time coming to UFAS Aparamita essentially the Meghalaya government
00:51and the police have now said we did what we could but this was a murder in this entire case there
00:58were questions being raised about the safety of the state the safety of this location which is
01:02isolated but here the government is saying this place is safe this was a murder which was a pre-planned
01:08conspiracy and hence there were no locals behind it as was being speculated earlier isn't it
01:14so this is an isolated case as you mentioned yes and uh locals after finding out what has actually
01:21happened to Sonam Raghubanshi they are they are now furious because they had earlier also claimed that
01:26uh that Meghalaya is a safe state because we have a lot of stories coming in every single day
01:31and one isolated uh incident cannot term Meghalaya as a crime prone hill that's what some outlets had
01:38earlier declared so right after Raja Raghubanshi and Sonam Raghubanshi's missing case was registered
01:45Meghalaya police turned also no turned no I mean they immediately began this can you hear me
01:52hello yes continue yeah Aparamita I can hear you immediately they began the search and after
01:59Raja Raghubanshi's body was recovered from the cliff the gorge that is near way south down waterfall
02:05they they continued the search for Sonam Raghubanshi they recovered a weapon and uh the SP had said that
02:13the weapon was purchased online and it was fairly new so a weapon that was not uh that is generally not
02:19used by the locals that was recovered from the site of murder and then the police continued search for
02:25Sonam Raghubanshi a few days later uh CCTV footage was uh uh retrieved and there we found that uh Sonam
02:34Raghubanshi was wearing a raincoat and the same raincoat resembled the one that the police had
02:40recovered from Mokuma that is in Sora so these things are led to the police to question whether
02:46it was a case of homicide in fact in the very beginning the police said it was a case of
02:51homicide but they were not sure whether it was murder and after the a lot of investigation
02:57they found out that it was actually a murder that was done that's right and it's been planned
03:01for days together is what is clear isn't it Amritanshi you know the girl was absconding for
03:08just so many days together 23rd of may is the last time that they had established contact with the
03:13family talk to us about how she called Amritanshi her family from gazipur in up that call was made to
03:21endure and the family members then in fact called the police can you tell us a little more about what
03:27happened there uh so uh when Raja Raghubanshi's bodies was found in the gorge after that Sonam
03:37there were no traces of Sonam so there was a manhunt for Sonam uh in the other place near the gorge and
03:44uh all around the place in Meghalaya and Shilong uh but after that uh some of the traces like uh Sonam's
03:51white shirt was found near the body of Raja Raghubanshi her raincoat was found uh near the body of Raja Raghubanshi
03:57and after that some CCTV footages were clearly indicating that Sonam was missing on and the audio
04:03also uh Sonam around like 4 a.m in the morning uh today reached at a dhaba in the gazipur and she
04:11called uh her brother she took the phone of the dhaba owner and she video called her brother and
04:17told him that i am in gazipur right now because Sonam's brother was in Shilong he was also there to
04:23find Sonam with the police and also the family were pressurizing police to find Sonam as soon as
04:28possible because they were thinking that Sonam was abducted by someone other after Raja Raghubanshi's
04:33murder but she phone called him at 4 a.m today uh the brother of Sonam Raghubanshi informed the
04:40indoor police that Sonam has called her and after that indoor police informed the gazipur police that
04:47Sonam is there at a dhaba in the gazipur uh then the police reached the gazipur and they said that
04:53Sonam surrendered after that and right now Sonam is at the one-stop center she is getting the medical
04:58treatments because be with us i'll come back to you in a moment from now