Sonam brought to Phulwari Sharif en route to Meghalaya
PATNA, June 11 -- Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, who was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur on Monday for allegedly murdering her husband on honeymoon in Meghalaya, was brought to Patna en route to Shillong via Guwahati (Assam) on Tuesday.
People aware of the matter said a five-member Meghalaya Police team took Raghuvanshi on an Indigo flight 6E775 to Kolkata from Patna departed at 3:55 pm. From there, she took flight 6E572 to Guwahati, and then be transported to Shillong by road under heavy escort.
Accompanying her is a four-member team of Meghalaya Police including three female officers (Shida Kharsati, Rosa M Khon Gsit, and Shira Silte D) and one male officer, Surendra Prasad Sonar. The team has been tasked with extracting the truth and confronting Sonam with the mounting digital and circumstantial evidence. They arrived in Patna from Ghazipur, where a court granted the Meghalaya Police her transit remand late on Monday to take her to Shillong for further probe.
All through the five-hour journey from Ghazipur to Patna, the woman had just one response for the police, "Sir, I have a headache". Sonam appeared calm during the journey but looked mentally exhausted. On Monday night, as the convoy carrying Sonam left Ghazipur, she offered no resistance. But she also offered no cooperation. Seated silently in the police vehicle, Sonam remained expressionless. Officers say every attempt to engage her in conversation - whether casual or investigative - was met with a quiet, recurring refrain, "Sir, mujhe sar dard ho raha hai (Sir, I have a headache)". She neither ate nor slept through the night. She offered no clue to the cops about what had transpired in Shillong just nine days after her wedding.
It was only after she was brought to Phulwari Sharief police station that Sonam finally broke her silence, and that too with a story the police are finding hard to believe. According to officers present at the police station, Sonam repeatedly claimed that she had been kidnapped and later abandoned in Ghazipur. "Main to gayab thi, mujhe chhod diya gaya (I was disappeared by someone they left me in Ghazipur)," she reportedly told an official. She insisted she had no role in her husband's murder and was being framed. Earlier she consumed tea and water inside the police station.
The people said Sonam Raghuvanshi, dressed in a black T-shirt and trousers, was kept at Patna's Phulwari Sharif police station before the flight, as it is close to the Patna airport. She was seen resting her head on the table, reportedly asleep, and hid her face behind two bags on a table at the station. A picture of her went viral on social media. Outside the police station, a large number of people besides media personnel captured visuals of her inside the premises....
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