Indore: The father of an Indore-based woman, who has been accused of hiring men to kill her husband during their honeymoon in Meghalaya, on Monday claimed his daughter was “100 per cent innocent” and demanded a CBI probe into the matter.
A relative of deceased local transport businessman Raja Raghuvanshi also said they cannot believe his wife Sonam was behind his murder, but if she is proven guilty, she should be given the harshest punishment.
Indore resident Raghuvanshi was allegedly killed by men hired by his wife during their honeymoon in Meghalaya, DGP I Nongrang said on Monday morning.
Speaking to PTI, she said the woman surrendered before the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, while three other assailants were arrested in overnight raids.
Raghuvanshi and his wife went missing while vacationing in Meghalaya’s Sohra area on May 23. His body was found in a gorge on June 2.
Sonam’s father, however, refuted the police’s claims.
“My daughter is 100 per cent innocent. We demand a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the case,” Sonam’s father, Devi Singh Raghuvansh, I told reporters.
“The Meghalaya police are giving false statements about my daughter because the state government’s image is getting tarnished due to Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder case,” he alleged.
He further claimed that the Meghalaya police have no evidence against his daughter that she gave a contract to get her husband killed.
Meanwhile, Raja Raghuvanshi’s brother, Vipin Raghuvanshi, said, “Sonam made a video call to her brother Govind late last night. After this, we called the Uttar Pradesh police and informed them about Sonam being in their state.”
“Until the alleged contract killers are confronted with Sonam, we cannot believe that she had hired them to kill her husband,” he said.
If Sonam is found guilty of the murder of her husband, then she should get the harshest punishment, he added.
The name of a person named Raj Kushwaha has surfaced in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case.
Sonam’s father, who runs a business of Sunmica sheets used in furniture, said a person named Raj Kushwaha is associated with his establishment, and till the day before yesterday, he was working at his warehouse.
“Kushwaha’s name is being wrongly linked with my daughter Sonam. The Meghalaya police are making false allegations against my daughter to save their skin. I will send a legal notice to the Meghalaya police. I want the CBI to investigate the entire matter,” he said.
After their marriage on May 11, Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife left for Meghalaya on May 20 for their honeymoon.
They arrived at Mawlakhiat village in the north-eastern state on May 22 on a rented scooter.
On May 24, their scooter was found abandoned at a cafe along the road from Shillong to Sohra, following which the search for them began.
