Indian police say a woman who disappeared after her husband was found brutally killed in their honeymoon is detained after she surrendered.
The couple’s families said the bride was also killed or kidnapped and held a huge campaign to find it.
Police are now claiming that Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, has hired killers to kill her 30-year-old man Raja Raja on his journey to the small northeast Meghalaya state. Four men were also arrested.
Sonam’s father, Devi Singh, defended his daughter by saying, “She is innocent and she can’t do it.”
A new wedding couple from Indore in the city central Madhya Pradesh, chose meghalaya in her honeymoon because they heard she had “very beautiful valleys,” said Raja brother Sachin Raghuvanshi on the weekend BBC.
The couple was married on May 11th. In the Indore ceremony, blessed by both families.
“Their marriage was held four months ago and they were both happy and were not fighting between the couple before or after their marriage,” said another Raja brother, Vipin Raghuvanshi.
The couple went to Meghalaya May 20th. But four days after their trip, they disappeared.
Police and assistance disaster teams, accompanied by local people, were looking for a couple. In the videos, rescuers shown hills and rocks in valleys covered in fog. Officials said rain and low visibility obstructed search operations.
A week later, a broken body was found in a gorge with a sore throat and its wallet, a gold ring and a chain. And the sonam disappeared without a trace.
Their families have organized a huge campaign, accusing the Meghalaya police inadequate enough to resolve the murder of Raja or find a sonam, an accusation argued by the Chief Minister of the State.
The couple’s families demanded that the case be referred to the Federal Police properly investigate and agreed to influential caste leaders and federal ministers in their native state to lobbyists.
Last Friday, they also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to present justice to Raja and find Sonam.
Their families say the couple held marriage and seemed to be happy [Raghuvanshi family]
But on Monday morning, Meghalaya Police Director General Idashisha Nongrang said Sonam surrendered to Uttar Pradesh Ghazipur district police station.
The other three suspects who are also from the couple’s home state Madhya Pradesh were arrested overnight, DGP Nongrang said.
“One person was elected from Utar Pradesh, and the other two defendants were detained from Indor. Sonam surrendered to the Nandganj Police Station and was later arrested.”
Later, when applying to a press conference, police vivek Syiem Superintendent said the fourth man was arrested in Meghalaya in the case of a case on Monday morning.
He did not give any Raja’s motive for the murder, but described Sonam “as the main suspect”.
In response to the journalist’s question, “whether Sonam had a non-marital relationship with one of the arrested men,” Mr. Syyim, “if you join the points, then it would look.” However, he added that these details could only be checked after both were interviewed.
Sonam’s father Devi Singh told Ani news agency that his daughter had reached Dhab [roadside eatery] She borrowed a cell phone in Ghazipore last night and called her brother who then called the police. “
Mr Singh said he was unable to talk to his daughter, but believed that “somehow managed to escape the kidnappers,” and demanded that she be “innocent.”
Mr. Singh also accused meghalaya police for “stories” and appealed to the Minister of the Interior, Amyit Shah to order the federal investigation of the case to explain the truth.
Raja’s brother, Vipin Raghuvanshi, initially told reporters that “he would not accept sonam’s involvement in the murder until she recognized.”
However, he later said that one of the men named after the arrested police worked in the sonam office.
“Only Sonam can explain,” he said. “If she is guilty, she should be punished.”
Mr Raghuvanshi, who has repeatedly criticized meghalaya police and the government for not sufficiently helped to resolve the case, said, “I now believe that the Meghalaya government did not lie. They told the truth.”
On Monday morning, after the news stopped, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma praised her state police forces, saying that they had reached a “great breakthrough” within seven days. Another minister, Alexander Laloo Hek, said the state police, government and even ordinary people were unfairly accused of searches.
“The truth came out,” he said.