“Case of love triangle, SIT cracked Raja Raghuvanshi murder in 7 days” reveals Meghalaya Minister

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Shillong (Meghalaya) June 9, 2025 (ANI):Tourism Minister Paul Lyngdoh stated that the crime stemmed from a love triangle, with the main accused, Sonam Raghuvanshi, orchestrating the murder by hiring contract killers.

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00:00Good afternoon, friends from the Media Fraternity.

00:05I will be joined briefly by SP East Cassian's district, but we will commence with this briefing.

00:14The state of Meghriya and the people of Meghriya today are relieved that the state police have

00:25been able to crack this case, the murder of Raja Raghurvanchi, and as I had said the other

00:38day that we place our full confidence in the capable state police led by the DGP and the

00:49SP East Cassian's district, and the confidence that we have expressed publicly the other day

00:57has today turned out to be well-placed.

01:03And it is clearly a case that involved a love triangle.

01:11It is also a case where the main accused had engaged contract killers in order to carry

01:25out a heinous crime.

01:29So the state and the people of Meghriya today stand vindicated.

01:33We congratulate the Special Investigation Team, the mountaineering associations, rock climbing

01:45associations, the local people of Sora, the Media Fraternity, who despite very challenging terrain

01:56and the slush in the peak of the monsoon, we have also been able to recover the body of

02:08the victim.

02:10Despite that, the same family had accused that Meghriya police was inefficient.

02:19They were unable to carry out investigation.

02:21And in a span of seven days, the state investigation team has now cracked the case.

02:29So, all together, there are four accused.

02:36The main accused here, the wife of Raja, Sonam Raghuvanchi, had herself surrendered

02:53at the Nungansh Police Station of Ghazipur District, UP.

03:02Along with her, she had taken a group of three other contract killers, Vishal Singh Chauhan, Raj Singh

03:21Kushnaya, and Anand Kurmi, all residents of Hindu, Madhya Pradesh.

03:35So, the facts of the case have earlier been shared with you by the SP of the district.

03:47He will be here briefly, but at this stage, I must make a few points.

03:54First and foremost is the fact that we have proved that we have a capable police force that

04:02has been able to solve this case, too, that as a state, we continue to play host to tourists

04:13from across the country and abroad.

04:18However, we will continue to do that.

04:22However, we will also keep engaging with the entire local tourist fraternity to ensure that

04:35we upscale our capacity to prevent such incidents.

04:41The role of a section of the national media has also drawn the attention of the state government.

04:54They have been running a media trial over the past one week.

05:02And, in fact, some of the immediate family of both the accused and the victim have also

05:14used very defamatory language against Meagreya.

05:19And there were also instances where they had gone to the extent of inciting people to actually

05:28take revenge against the residents and the people of Meagreya.

05:36The other aspect is that there were questions raised about why were there no guides to accompany

05:46the couple.

05:47It has now been proven beyond doubt that the tourists, the couple, did not agree to the offer

06:01of the service of a guide and, in fact, wanted to go on their own.

06:09And therefore, the state cannot, in fact, force people to take the help and assistance of guides.

06:20But the service is available as and when people opt for it.

06:26So that is all that I have to say at this stage.

06:32The other aspect is that, yeah, as far as the attacks on the image of Meagreya, the media

06:46trial and the slugfest that has been orchestrated by some news channels, the state government has

06:55already through the police department, registered FIRs.

07:00And we will also move through our legal means to ensure that all these perpetrators of this

07:13attack on the image of Meagreya will be brought to book.

07:16So at this stage, our SP of the district is here.

07:20I commend, congratulate him and his team for this brilliant and significant breakthrough in

07:29this case.

07:31And if you have any queries regarding the case per se, you can direct your questions to our

07:38SP, the student.

07:39Well, one thing is that last time the Chief Minister has mentioned that the CCTV cameras

07:50will be installed, firstly, to the high density tourist location.

07:56So when this process will start?

07:59As I said, we will immediately review the entire situation, upscale whatever facilities we

08:08have.

08:09But let me also remind you that tourists also come here to enjoy nature, to enjoy the private

08:16moment.

08:17This couple has come on a honeymoon.

08:20How can we fix CCTVs wherever they go?

08:25Would they like that?

08:27Is it humanly possible for us to fit CCTVs across all gorges in Soura?

08:36Is it even desirable?

08:37But the high density tourist location, will they have CCTV cameras?

08:42We already have.

08:44Actually, a lot of lodges and homestays actually have been advised to have CCTVs and all that.

08:56It becomes very helpful.

08:57And that helps us also, especially in places where you have high footfall.

09:03But it's not possible.

09:04You see the span of that place.

09:08Let me just tell you, the search initially was conducted over 150 square kilometres.

09:15It is not possible in that kind of terrain to have, even in the city, we have just had

09:22a smart city recently, only about 300 cameras.

09:24So you can well imagine that terrain is like, you have gorges and the kind of undergrowth

09:29you have out there.

09:30It is not possible to have everywhere CCTVs.

09:32And so you, we can insist and advise that we do in homestays and certain places where

09:39the footfall is high, hotels, lodges and all that to have CCTVs.

09:42It is helpful.

09:43Hapap, learning from this incident, if you can tell us what sort of measures are we planning

09:48to make sure that even our tourist places are safe and even the tourists coming from

09:52outside, they also have a happy time out here.

09:55See, all our tourist destinations are safe.

09:59Sora itself, this is the first ever case of a crime ever been reported.

10:06There has not been any instances of even assaults on tourists.

10:11But when people come here with the motive of murdering somebody, how does the, how do

10:18we prevent that from happening?

10:20And these are a married couple on their honeymoon.

10:24How do we track their movement when they don't, when they don't, when they refuse the service

10:31of guides as well?

10:33How do we track their movement when they do the service to their people?

10:36How do we track their movement when they take their movement, when they don't

10:41let us to the service of their religion be asked why we are going to know what's

10:46it going to happen, and we then see how the village and the people

10:49and the people and the people as well they absolutely have seen their movement.

10:54This is the application of the expressway.

10:56I see, the police, the police, the police, the police are coming up in the reinforcing

11:01This is what the FFI is going to be done.

11:05I think it's important to know what the FFI is going to be done.

11:11The FFI is a platform that's part of the FFI and the PFI is a program that's part of the FFI.

11:20We are going to talk about how the FFI is done.

11:24In this case, we have to go to the state.

11:28We have to go to the state,

11:31and we have to go to the state.

11:34We have to go to the country,

11:37we have to go to the tourist.

11:40We have to go to the tourist,

11:42and we have to go to the city.

11:46They should have remained indoors and indoors.

11:50Can we go to the city?

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