According to police sources, Sonam contacted the number registered under the name Sanjay Verma 112 times between March 1 and March 25. She used to have long conversations with the person on the other end, who turned out to be Raj Kushwaha, her boyfriend.
Sonam Raghuvanshi, arrested for the murder of her husband while on honeymoon in Meghalaya, made over 100 phone calls to a man named Sanjay Verma in the weeks leading up to her marriage. It has now come to light that Verma was a fake identity used by her boyfriend, Raj Kushwaha.
According to Indore Police sources, Sonam (24) contacted the number registered under the name Sanjay Verma 112 times between March 1 and March 25. Sonam used to have long conversations with the person on the other end, the sources said.
After Sanjay Verma’s name cropped up in connection with the case, Indore Police launched an investigation. The phone was found to be used by Kushwaha, accused of being the mastermind behind the killing of Sonam’s husband, Raja Raghuvanshi.
Sonam and Raja (29) got married on May 11 in Indore and left for their honeymoon on May 20. Just three days later, the couple went missing near Sohra, 65 kilometres from Shillong.
Raja’s decomposed body was recovered on June 2 from a 200-foot-deep gorge near Weisawdong Falls in Cherrapunji, where he had been hacked to death and dumped, police said.
A week later, the “missing” Sonam was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur. During interrogation, she allegedly confessed to her husband’s murder and named Kushwaha and three hitmen — Vishal Chauhan, Anand Kurmi, and Akash Rajput — as co-conspirators. All four were arrested by Indore Police.
“Sonam was present at the scene and watched her husband die,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police Poonam Chand Yadav in an interview with India Today TV.
