Shillong (Meghalaya), June 19, 2025 (ANI): In a recent update, East Khasi Hills SP Vivek Syiem, the chief investigator in the case, revealed several key details. He shared information about the frequency of calls between Raj and Sonam, the judicial custody developments, Raja Raghuvanshi’s jewellery, and the recovery of a second weapon, among other findings.
00:00She had three phones and two phones destroyed and thrown and one phone our team is still looking for it where it is.
00:09Sanjeev Verma is just a fictitious name which is registered in Truecaller and the real person holding that SIM number is actually Raj Kuchwa only.
00:19The tally of calls between Raj and Sonam is huge.
00:24So the frequency of calls is huge. When you receive the call from Raj that you make her surrender, the rest have been sent for judicial custody.
00:34But after we have done our work with Sonam and Raj then probably we will revert back to the other three and ask for police custody again because much needs to be done also on the reconstruction bit.
00:45So the reason we are sending them to judicial custody that you are happy with that investigation into the three?
00:50No, the investigation is in progress but something we need to do more on that front and most probably SIT will be taking police remand later.
01:01So what about the Sonam phones? Did police recover the phones?
01:05See, we have not recovered the phone. She had three phones and two phones destroyed and thrown and one phone our team is still looking for it where it is.
01:16Because we believe the phone and the jewellery which actually Sonam had taken from there and which was not found in the flat has probably been whisked away to some other place.
01:25Sir, reports are coming that one particular bag has been seen with Sonam, a black coloured bag, where she was taking a thing from Shillong to Indore.
01:35So any update on this sir?
01:38Like I said, we are examining the footages from there and the team and Miglalapoli's team and Crime Branch, Madhya Pradesh, they are studying these footages and all that and we will see whether it was passed on to anybody.
01:52But it is the fact that all things in that flat have been taken away and that flat has been left clean.
01:58Sir, call details are the end of Sanjay Verma.
02:02See, I don't know from which end you have got these call details and how credible they are.
02:08And since yesterday a lot of people have been calling me about Sanjay Verma and I have said also that Sanjay Verma is just a fictitious game which is registered in True Caller.
02:17And the real person holding that SIM number is actually Raj Kushwa only.
02:23So the 119 calls have been made to Raj Armi sir?
02:26See, the tally, I will not be able to give you a tally and I don't know where you have got that and I don't think so.
02:31That is credible also, wherever you have got the call tally from.
02:36But I can tell you that the tally of calls between Raj and Sonam is huge, you know.
02:43So the frequency of calls is huge.
02:46Another development I would like to inform you all.
02:49Today the SIT team and SIT team in Madhya Pradesh along with the Prime Ranj have identified the driver of the Eltega which actually where Sonam was taken to, she was supposed to be taken to Balya.
03:04And another taxi arranged from Balya but that person from Balya didn't want to take her because she didn't have any papers.
03:10So he called this taxi driver, the name of the taxi driver is Pramod Saha, alias Piyush, to come and pick her up again.
03:19And she was actually from Balya, she had reached Ghazipur.
03:25And so he had reached Ghazipur and when he received the call from Raj that you know you make her surrender because things have gone wrong out there and they have come up with this story.
03:38So that's how she called up from the Dhaba.
03:42Have you all been sitting in a restaurant and planning?
03:49I don't know about where exactly, we'll have to ascertain those facts exactly how the conspiracy, right now SIT is ascertaining in different stages of conspiracy how they planned it.
03:58So that is still going on because it's not just one day, it's a multiple series of planning and so we are getting that very soon exactly how stage by stage the whole planning was done.
04:13And we also like I said you know though we have found the love triangle out here but we are also exploring whether there is something more than meets the eye.
04:21Sir, after killing the Raja, did you spend some days in this that rented flat in the Indul?
04:31Yes, see after she left from here and she had reached there on the 21st, 26th actually she reached there and she had been there till the 8th and on the 8th at about 4.10am she left that flat.
04:48So she's been there only, cooked up out there.
04:51Sir, the last question to you, the murder weapon, the second murder weapon which has been found, could you find any dots with that sir?
04:56The murder weapon is rusted because of so many days but we are sending to the Central Forensics for ascertaining that whether any rust stains are there.
05:04The two more persons were identified by a co-passenger named Ujana Yadav.
05:09In her statement she said there are two more persons she saw.
05:14Will you be investigating?
05:16See, right now we have our investigation is planned and structured.
05:22A lot of things may come on the way like this person kind of met her in a bus but this does not sit well with the kind of facts we have.
05:33Because that person said on the 7th she met Sonam whereas till the 8th she was there.
05:41So I don't know whether it's not possible for her to meet Sonam.
05:46So let us see.
05:47Coming to two days custody, that would be enough for you to again send them a resolution?
05:52No, like I said, no two days we will take.
05:55We will examine them.
05:57Our team is there in Indore, we need to examine a lot of things from there.
06:00And perhaps if required we will take more peace custody after.
06:04Sir, in your case, you have made a statement about Sonam and Raj.
06:08Do you feel any suspicious about Sonam's behavior or something that you have contributed to?
06:14See, as far as now, there is nothing we have found which is suspicious.
06:20But we will have to piece everything together.
06:23It is just not…
06:24Because people when they give a statement, it is always in a state of denial.
06:28And for an investigator's eye, we need to actually delve deeper into it.
06:38So people will say yes, everything is okay and everything is hamki dhuri out there.
06:42But we will delve deeper into this.
06:45Sir, there is a one, there is a Raza documentary's jewelry description.
06:50It is also been stated that Sonam has kept this jewelry into somewhere in this place.
06:58Exactly, that's what I am saying.
06:59We are trying to ascertain now.
07:00The team out there is trying to ascertain how did this jewelry and how these things which are in that flat,
07:05how did they go away?
07:07So, along with crime branch from MP, we will ascertain that.
07:12Coming to one more thing.
07:13Charge it will be within 90 days or before.
07:17Like I have said earlier, we will try to make the charge sheet in fact before the 90 days only.
