The record
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- The Supreme Court has given murder accused Sonam Raghuwanshi two options: surrender to face trial, or the court will decide her bail plea on the merits of the case.
- She is accused of conspiring with hired killers to murder her husband Raja Raghuwanshi during their honeymoon in Meghalaya in May 2025, with his body found in a gorge on June 2, 2025.
- The Meghalaya High Court had upheld her bail because police cited the wrong section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in her arrest memo, and the Meghalaya government has challenged that decision in the Supreme Court.
- The case matters because it turns on whether a clerical error in arrest paperwork can sustain bail in a serious murder case.
What to watch next
- Whether Sonam Raghuwanshi's lawyers return to the Supreme Court with instructions to surrender or contest the bail cancellation on merits.
- How the court rules on the Meghalaya government's challenge to the High Court's bail decision.
- The trial court proceedings in the murder case, which she may now have to face in person.
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Named India · High Court · Justice M.M. Sundresh · Justice MM Sundresh · Justice P.B. Varale · Justice PB Varale · Meghalaya Government · Meghalaya High Court · Raja Raghuvanshi · Raja Raghuwanshi · Sonam Raghuvanshi · Sonam Raghuwanshi · Supreme Court of India
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