Missing Indian bride arrested for allegedly murdering husband on honeymoon

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Police in India say a woman, who had gone missing after her husband was found brutally murdered during their honeymoon, is in custody after she surrendered.

The families of the couple had alleged that the bride had also either been killed or abducted and mounted a huge campaign to find her.

Police now allege that Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, hired killers to murder her 30-year-old husband Raja during their trip to the tiny north-eastern state of Meghalaya. Four men have also been arrested.
The newly-wed couple from Indore city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh had chosen Meghalaya for their honeymoon because they had heard it had "very beautiful valleys", Raja's brother Sachin Raghuvanshi told the BBC at the weekend, before Sonam's arrest.

The couple had married on 11 May in Indore in a ceremony blessed by both their families.

"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 other brother Vipin Raghuvanshi said.

The couple left for Meghalaya on 20 May. But four days into their trip, they went missing.

Police and disaster relief teams, accompanied by local people, searched for the couple. Videos from the area showed rescuers rappelling down hills and cliffs in valleys covered in mist. Officials said rain and low visibility were hampering the search operations.

A week later, Raja's decomposed body was found in a gorge with his throat slit and his wallet, a gold ring and a chain missing. And Sonam had disappeared without a trace.

Their families mounted a huge campaign, accusing the Meghalaya police of not doing enough to solve Raja's murder or find Sonam - an accusation contested by the state's chief minister.

The couple's families demanded that the case be handed over to the federal police for a proper investigation and met influential caste leaders and federal ministers in their home state to lobby for this.

Last Friday, they also wrote a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver justice for Raja and find Sonam.




Sonam's father Devi Singh has defended his daughter saying "she is innocent and she cannot do this".

But on Monday morning, Director General of Meghalaya police Idashisha Nongrang said Sonam had surrendered at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district.

Three other suspects, who are also from the couple's home state Madhya Pradesh, have been arrested in overnight raids, DGP Nongrang said.

"One person was picked up from Uttar Pradesh and another two accused were apprehended from Indore. Sonam surrendered at the Nandganj police station and was subsequently arrested."

Later, addressing a press conference, Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem said a fourth man had been arrested in Meghalaya in connection with the case on Monday morning.

Sonam Raghuvanshi: Missing Indian bride arrested for allegedly murdering husband on honeymoon

Raja Raghuvanshi and Sonam were on their honeymoon in India's Meghalaya state when they went missing.

www.bbc.com

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Even international media is covering this news.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

 

[Suleiman]

Very sad and gory read. Condolences to the family, can’t imagine what they must be feeling. Wedding their boy off to a new chapter in life and then this.

 

[sweep_shot]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.

Very tragic.

This is what I fear with marriage. What if wife does something like this?

This is why I only want to marry a super-religious lady. They don't do these things usually. These evil actions are generally done by secular/liberal women.

 

[Rajdeep]

Our society also must be blamed for this. The girl clearly loved another guy but kept quiet fearing backlash and reluctantly married the person her mom & dad wanted. I am not saying she should have killed him but we must give freedom in our society to choose partners according to their choice.

I remember when I first came to UK, one girl in my team was getting married and she was announcing it in the team meeting. One very conservative girl from Bangalore office who was also my good friend asked on call - 'Oh ho...this is a love marriage, is it?'. After the meeting, she was like 'Rajdeep what kind of question was that?'

Our society must give more freedom to people for marriage and then incidents like these or dowry issues will reduce.

 

[Mockingbird]

Our society also must be blamed for this. The girl clearly loved another guy but kept quiet fearing backlash and reluctantly married the person her mom & dad wanted. I am not saying she should have killed him but we must give freedom in our society to choose partners according to their choice.

I remember when I first came to UK, one girl in my team was getting married and she was announcing it in the team meeting. One very conservative girl from Bangalore office who was also my good friend asked on call - 'Oh ho...this is a love marriage, is it?'. After the meeting, she was like 'Rajdeep what kind of question was that?'

Our society must give more freedom to people for marriage and then incidents like these or dowry issues will reduce.

Forced marriages have to go out & slowly but surely this is indeed happening. In big urban centers in India, the late millenials/Gen Zs are definitely opting for love marriages, slowly it might filter down to the Tier2/Tier 3 cities. Dating is widely acceptable now & parents too don’t try to impose their choice on the kids. I have nephews/nieces who are in college back home & most of them have bfs/gfs which their family knows about & are ok with. A very different landscape compared to my own college life

 

[Bhaijaan]

Forced marriages have to go out & slowly but surely this is indeed happening. In big urban centers in India, the late millenials/Gen Zs are definitely opting for love marriages, slowly it might filter down to the Tier2/Tier 3 cities. Dating is widely acceptable now & parents too don’t try to impose their choice on the kids. I have nephews/nieces who are in college back home & most of them have bfs/gfs which their family knows about & are ok with. A very different landscape compared to my own college life

Unfortunate that we are quitting our beautiful culture for this western way of dating and body count race. It used to be have you done it? and now it’s are you on a half century or approaching a hundred. They’re still unhappy, living a narcissistic loner’s depressed life.

The Westerners got influenced by Sanatan and started giving value to family. We on the other hand been blindly following a failed system of a failed civilization on the brink of collapse.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Some day soon i will open a Men’s Health thread

 

[Hitman]

Extremely tragic and sad. I just hope justice will be served soon.

 

[BouncerGuy]

So sad to see such news popping up every now and then and many of such cases have men as victims and yet no one is talking about this stuff internationally...

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Police in India say a woman, who had gone missing after her husband was found brutally murdered during their honeymoon, is in custody after she surrendered.

The families of the couple had alleged that the bride had also either been killed or abducted and mounted a huge campaign to find her.

Police now allege that Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, hired killers to murder her 30-year-old husband Raja during their trip to the tiny north-eastern state of Meghalaya. Four men have also been arrested.
The newly-wed couple from Indore city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh had chosen Meghalaya for their honeymoon because they had heard it had "very beautiful valleys", Raja's brother Sachin Raghuvanshi told the BBC at the weekend, before Sonam's arrest.

The couple had married on 11 May in Indore in a ceremony blessed by both their families.

"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 other brother Vipin Raghuvanshi said.

The couple left for Meghalaya on 20 May. But four days into their trip, they went missing.

Police and disaster relief teams, accompanied by local people, searched for the couple. Videos from the area showed rescuers rappelling down hills and cliffs in valleys covered in mist. Officials said rain and low visibility were hampering the search operations.

A week later, Raja's decomposed body was found in a gorge with his throat slit and his wallet, a gold ring and a chain missing. And Sonam had disappeared without a trace.

Their families mounted a huge campaign, accusing the Meghalaya police of not doing enough to solve Raja's murder or find Sonam - an accusation contested by the state's chief minister.

The couple's families demanded that the case be handed over to the federal police for a proper investigation and met influential caste leaders and federal ministers in their home state to lobby for this.

Last Friday, they also wrote a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver justice for Raja and find Sonam.




Sonam's father Devi Singh has defended his daughter saying "she is innocent and she cannot do this".

But on Monday morning, Director General of Meghalaya police Idashisha Nongrang said Sonam had surrendered at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district.

Three other suspects, who are also from the couple's home state Madhya Pradesh, have been arrested in overnight raids, DGP Nongrang said.

"One person was picked up from Uttar Pradesh and another two accused were apprehended from Indore. Sonam surrendered at the Nandganj police station and was subsequently arrested."

Later, addressing a press conference, Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem said a fourth man had been arrested in Meghalaya in connection with the case on Monday morning.

Sonam Raghuvanshi: Missing Indian bride arrested for allegedly murdering husband on honeymoon

Raja Raghuvanshi and Sonam were on their honeymoon in India's Meghalaya state when they went missing.

www.bbc.com

Modi must deliver justice for this poor man's family.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Modi must deliver justice for this poor man's family.

This is for state govts to take care of.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

This is for state govts to take care of.

They have appealed directly to Modi. He must intervene.

 

[Bhaijaan]

They have appealed directly to Modi. He must intervene.

If they have, they can expect a tight slap across the face from the PMO very soon. The PM doesn’t have time for this. He has to prepare for War. Not this.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Very strange stuff , why marry him in the first place????

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Our society also must be blamed for this. The girl clearly loved another guy but kept quiet fearing backlash and reluctantly married the person her mom & dad wanted. I am not saying she should have killed him but we must give freedom in our society to choose partners according to their choice.

I remember when I first came to UK, one girl in my team was getting married and she was announcing it in the team meeting. One very conservative girl from Bangalore office who was also my good friend asked on call - 'Oh ho...this is a love marriage, is it?'. After the meeting, she was like 'Rajdeep what kind of question was that?'

Our society must give more freedom to people for marriage and then incidents like these or dowry issues will reduce.

Where has it been said that this was a forced marriage? First I am hearing of it, there is no mention of that in the OP, it says both were happy with the arrangement.

Obviously it does look like she was already seeing someone else, but then would have been better to have refused the marriage at all costs rather than kill an innocent man under false pretences. This girl seems very ruthless, I think condemnation is the more appropriate than sympathy.

 

[Rajdeep]

Where has it been said that this was a forced marriage? First I am hearing of it, there is no mention of that in the OP, it says both were happy with the arrangement.

Obviously it does look like she was already seeing someone else, but then would have been better to have refused the marriage at all costs rather than kill an innocent man under false pretences. This girl seems very ruthless, I think condemnation is the more appropriate than sympathy.

The girl didnt inform her parents that she loves someone else fearing society and backlash she will be facing from her community. I have no sympathy with the girl though as what she has done is cruel.

 

[sweep_shot]

Where has it been said that this was a forced marriage? First I am hearing of it, there is no mention of that in the OP, it says both were happy with the arrangement.

Obviously it does look like she was already seeing someone else, but then would have been better to have refused the marriage at all costs rather than kill an innocent man under false pretences. This girl seems very ruthless, I think condemnation is the more appropriate than sympathy.

The girl should get the death penalty. Evil woman.

 

[Bhaijaan]

If you have absolutely got to kill someone, if there is no other choice and you’re so driven to the deep in the dark side, then at least be bit smart about it. Don’t do a noob job and embarrass yourself and family like that.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

 

[Cricket Warrior]

What the hell is happening in India? If you don't like someone simply don't marry them but this kind of betrayal should stop or be handled strictly by the state.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

The body of Shariful Islam, 24, an electrician with the Smart City project in Agartala, was found at Gandacherra in Tripura's Dhalai district.​

Six people were arrested on Wednesday after the body of a man was found in a suitcase stored in a freezer in Tripura’s Dhalai district, nearly three days after he went missing from Agartala. The arrested accused include a cousin of a girl the man, Shariful Islam, was in love with, police said.

“We arrested six persons, Dr Dibakar Saha, 28, his father Dipak Saha, 52, mother Debika Saha, 40, Nabanita Das, 25, Joydeep Das, 20, Animesh Yadav, 21. A love triangle was the reason behind the murder. Shariful was having an affair with a girl. Dibakar, a cousin of the girl, was also in love with her. We found messages of love exchanged from their mobile phones,” said Kiran Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Tripura West.

Shariful, 24, was engaged in the Smart City project as an electrician.

The police said that Dibakar had invited Shariful to Joydeep’s house in South Indranagar on June 8 to give him some gifts. When Shariful went there, Dibakar allegedly strangled him in the presence of Joydeep, Animesh and Nabamita. He then allegedly stuffed Shariful’s body into the suitcase by tying the hands.

Dibakar took the suitcase to Gandacherra and stored it inside an ice cream fridge at his father’s shop on June 9, the police said, adding that he had bought the suitcase two days before the murder.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/body-missing-man-freezer-tripura-girlfriend-cousin-arrested-10061284/

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

 

[Bewal Express]

Very strange stuff , why marry him in the first place????

Family pressure?

 

[The Bald Eagle]

The body of Shariful Islam, 24, an electrician with the Smart City project in Agartala, was found at Gandacherra in Tripura's Dhalai district.​

Six people were arrested on Wednesday after the body of a man was found in a suitcase stored in a freezer in Tripura’s Dhalai district, nearly three days after he went missing from Agartala. The arrested accused include a cousin of a girl the man, Shariful Islam, was in love with, police said.

“We arrested six persons, Dr Dibakar Saha, 28, his father Dipak Saha, 52, mother Debika Saha, 40, Nabanita Das, 25, Joydeep Das, 20, Animesh Yadav, 21. A love triangle was the reason behind the murder. Shariful was having an affair with a girl. Dibakar, a cousin of the girl, was also in love with her. We found messages of love exchanged from their mobile phones,” said Kiran Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Tripura West.

Shariful, 24, was engaged in the Smart City project as an electrician.

The police said that Dibakar had invited Shariful to Joydeep’s house in South Indranagar on June 8 to give him some gifts. When Shariful went there, Dibakar allegedly strangled him in the presence of Joydeep, Animesh and Nabamita. He then allegedly stuffed Shariful’s body into the suitcase by tying the hands.

Dibakar took the suitcase to Gandacherra and stored it inside an ice cream fridge at his father’s shop on June 9, the police said, adding that he had bought the suitcase two days before the murder.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/body-missing-man-freezer-tripura-girlfriend-cousin-arrested-10061284/

India is a becoming a horrible place now. Unfortunately, the more they show the crime scenes on TV, the more common they are becoming

 

[sweep_shot]

India is a becoming a horrible place now. Unfortunately, the more they show the crime scenes on TV, the more common they are becoming

Yup. This is the chaiwala/BJP/RSS affect.

We can also see on PP how horrible sanghis are. Some of them cheer when Palestinian children die.

 

[Major]

So the four guys from this attack got arrested but the 3 terrorists that did the Pahalgam attack have still not been caught.

nice

 

[Savak]

There was a similar story about a British Indian Sikh wife who got involved in an affair and she and her lover who followed her to India murdered her husband and the kids while extremely young babies witnessed it. Apparantly she got the death penalty and i hope the same happens in this case, you don't have the guts to stand up to your parents, elders to refuse to marry someone your not interested but it is very easy for you to kill someone. Capital punishment warranted.