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Shillong: Meghalaya officials took their fight to the Supreme Court on Thursday. They want an immediate stay on the bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi. She is the prime suspect in the 2025 murder of her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi.
The couple checked out of a Nongriat homestay on May 23, 2025. Days later, police found the 29-year-old businessman dead in a gorge near Weisawdong Falls. Sonam surfaced later in Uttar Pradesh.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Justices M.M. Sundresh and Sheel Nagu that the High Court made a massive error. He argued that the court granted bail based on a simple typo. The arrest papers cited the wrong legal code. Mehta insisted, "This procedural lapse should not justify bail."
The High Court previously backed a lower court decision to release her. Justice W. Diengdoh ruled that police failed to properly explain the grounds of her arrest. The judge called the error a fundamental legal defect. Investigators now worry she might flee.
State police have built a massive case. They filed a chargesheet over 700 pages long. The document claims Sonam plotted the death with her lover, Raj Kushwaha, and other accomplices.
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