Meghalaya homicide: Raja Raghuvanshis brother calls for Sonam Raghuvanshi’s narco check, claims extra folks concerned

Jun 19, 2025 10:19 PM IST Meghalaya honeymoon homicide: Sachin Raghuvanshi claimed that there could possibly be extra folks concerned within the case. The brother of Raja Raghuvanshi, an Indore-based businessman who was murdered in Meghalaya throughout his honeymoon, on Thursday demanded a narco check on the prime accused Sonam Raghuvanshi. Sonam Raghuvanshi was arrested in reference to the homicide of her husband throughout their honeymoon in Meghalaya.(PTI) Reacting to the Shillong district session’s resolution to ship Sonam Raghuvanshi to 2 days’ police custody, Sachin Raghuvanshi stated she had not disclosed the motive within the final eight days and claimed that there could possibly be extra folks concerned within the case. “In 8 days of remand, she (Sonam) did not tell why she killed him. So what will she tell in two days? That’s why I am demanding that a narcotics test be done,” Sachin Raghuvanshi advised ANI. “My only appeal to the government is that a narcotics test should be done on this… There may be more people involved in this case …” he added. Raja Raghuvanshi and his spouse Sonam had been reported lacking throughout their honeymoon in Meghalaya on May 23. On June 2, Raghuvanshi’s physique was present in a deep gorge near a waterfall within the Sohra space, also referred to as Cherrapunji, inside the East Khasi Hills district. Also Read | Raja Raghuvanshi’s brother makes large declare in Meghalaya honeymoon homicide case: ‘Sonam hasn’t…’ As the search continued for Sonam, she emerged in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, round 1,200 km away from the crime spot, within the early hours of June 9 and surrendered earlier than police. According to police, Sonam conspired together with her boyfriend Raj Kushwaha to rent three different males to kill her husband Raja throughout their honeymoon, practically two weeks after their marriage ceremony. The three killers — Akash Thakur, Anand Kurmi and Vishal Chauhan — are buddies and one in every of them is Raj’s cousin. Also Read | Meghalaya honeymoon homicide: Who is Sanjay Verma, whom Sonam Raghuvanshi known as 100 occasions earlier than marriage? On Thursday, the district session court docket in Shillong despatched Sonam Raghuvanshi and Raj Kushwaha to 2 days police custody and the opposite 3 to 14 days judicial custody. Earlier, all 5 accused within the Sonam Raghuvanshi case had been introduced out of the Civil Hospital in Shillong after a medical check-up and are being produced earlier than a neighborhood court docket at this time for additional custody proceedings.