The Meghalaya Police on Saturday filed a 790-page charge sheet against the five accused in the court of the first class Judicial Magistrate of the Sohra Sub-Division of Shillong in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case. Along with the charge sheet, adequate physical evidence and attachment have also been filed in the court. The police have made Sonam Raghuvanshi, Raj Kushwaha, Vishal Singh Chauhan, Ashish Singh Rajput and Anand Kurmi the main accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case and have been booked under Section 103 (1) 238 (A)/61 (2) of the Indian Justice Code (BNS).
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The press release by the Meghalaya Police said that on 21.05.2025, Mr. Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife Shanti Sonam Raghuvanshi Indore Madhya Pradesh came to Shillong for their honeymoon trip and then went to Sohra. On 26.05.2025, the couple went missing from Sohra. Accordingly, a search operation was immediately started to find both. The press release further states, “After several days of intense discovery by the Sohra Police, SOT, NDRF, SDRF, Trekking Groups and local people of the nearby villages, on 02.06.2025, near Wei Savdong, near Sohra, Arliang Riat Riat Kunongim of Umbalai found a corpse with a deep trench in Kunogim of Umbalai, which was identified in the form of King Raghuvanavanavin In, the case number 07/2025 in Sohra Police Station, Section 103 (1)/238 (A)/309 (6)/3 (6) of BNS Act was registered. “
The press release said that the 790-page charge sheet with adequate physical evidence and attached documents against the arrested accused has been filed today in the court of the first class Judicial Magistrate of Sohra Sub-Divisions Court. The newly married king Raghuvanshi, who went to Meghalaya on a honeymoon with his wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, was found dead in a valley near Sohra (Cherrapunji) on 2 June. Sonam’s body missing for several days was later found near a dhaba on the Varanasi-Ghazipur highway. The couple, a resident of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, went missing during their honeymoon trip in Meghalaya.
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Earlier, under the investigation of the murder of King Raghuvanshi, the SIT of the Meghalaya Police rebuilt the crime site. The SIT team rebuilt the scene of the murder in the presence of Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused in Sohra and three others.