Thursday, June 12, 2025 - An Indian bride allegedly had her newlywed husband k!lled during their honeymoon before she vanished, sparking a massive search that finally ended when she surrendered to police, according to reports.
Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, turned herself in on Monday, June 9, a week after her husband Raja’s rotting corpse was found with his throat slit at the bottom of a forestry gorge in Meghalaya on June 2.
The 30-year-old mutilated man was also missing his wallet, a
gold ring and a chain.
Raghuvanshi, who wed her now-slain husband in an arranged
ceremony in Indore on May 11, hired four men to carry out the twisted murd£r,
police said.
“Their marriage was arranged four months back and they were both happy and there had been no fights between the couple before or after marriage,” Raja’s brother, Vipin Raghuvanshi, said, the outlet reported.
“Only Sonam can clarify. If she’s guilty, she should be
punished.”
The couple left for their honeymoon on May 20, but their
families reported them missing four days into the trip, prompting police,
disaster relief teams, and local residents to launch a search effort.
Raja’s decomposed body was found within a week, but the
couple’s family publicly accused police and government officials of not doing
enough to investigate the murd£r or locate Raghuvanshi.
The alleged k!ller bride was picked up by police late
Sunday, June 8, when she showed up at a restaurant and tearfully called her
brother, who immediately notified authorities, the Times of India
reported.
Three other suspects have since been arrested in connection with the vicious slaying, while one assailant remains at large, police confirmed, according to the BBC.
Raghuvanshi’s father, who has yet to speak with his
daughter, has maintained her innocence, claiming she “somehow managed to escape
her captors” and that police are “making up stories.”
However, Raja’s brother, who also criticized authorities and
government officials, has accepted the accusations leveled against his
sister-in-law.
“I now believe that the Meghalaya government was not lying,”
he said, the outlet reported. “They were telling the truth.”
Local officials blasted the distressed family for unleashing
baseless claims during the investigation, even threatening to file a defamation
case against them for “maligning the image” of Meghalaya and its
people.
“The truth has come out,” Minister Alexander Laloo Hek told
reporters Monday, in a clip shared on X by ANI, an Asian news
network.
“Our police have done an excellent job and have nabbed the
culprit within seven days.”
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