Raja Raghuvanshi murder: Police custody for slain Indore man’s wife extended

Meghalaya court remands murder suspects to custody, police investigate crime scene near Weisawdong Falls.

A Meghalaya court has remanded Sonam Raghuvanshi and her alleged lover Raj Singh Kushwaha to two more days of police custody.

The two are accused of murdering Sonam’s husband, businessman Raja Raghuvanshi of Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, near a cascade in Meghalaya’s Sohra on May 23.

The Sessions Court in Shillong also sent three other accused in the murder case – Vishal Singh Chauhan, Akash Rajput, and Anand Kurmi – to 14 days of judicial custody.

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All five were produced before the court on Thursday (June 19, 2025) evening after the expiry of eight days of police custody.

On Tuesday, the State police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) completed the reconstruction of the crime scene, which led to the recovery of a second machete suspected to have been used in the murder. The machete was found near the Weisawdong Falls.

The SIT scouted many spots from the parking lot at Mawlakhiat, where the accused parked their rented two-wheelers, to the Weisawdong parking lot, about 25 km away, where the crime was committed. The police said the accused hacked Raja to death at the parking lot near the Weisawdong Falls and dumped his body in the adjacent gorge.