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Raja Raghuvanshi murder case
by an unknown person outside Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport in Indore. The incident occurred when authorities were taking him inside the airport. Raja Raghuvanshi's ghastly murder in Meghalaya, allegedly at the behest of his wife
Sonam
, has led to the arrest of four men till now.
Days after Raja's body was found in a gorge in Sohra, Meghalaya, Sonam surrendered before the police in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh late on Sunday night, while four accused, including suspected conspirator Raja Kushwah, were arrested from different areas of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi's father claimed that Sonam got her husband murdered to remove the 'Mangal Dosh' in her horoscope so that she could later marry her alleged lover Raj Kushwaha, who worked in the furniture sheet business of Sonam's family in Indore.
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Police arrested Akash Rajput (19) from Uttar Pradesh, and Vishal Singh Chauhan (22), Raj Singh Kushwaha (21), the alleged conspirator, and Anand Kurmi from Indore and Sagar.
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Raja Raghuvanshi's brutal murder
Raja Raghuvanshi, the tourist from Indore killed in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district, was hit twice on his head with a sharp object, his autopsy report has indicated.
East Khasi Hills district's SP Vivek Syiem told PTI that the police saw two cuts on his head during the inquest after Raghuvanshi's body was taken out of the gorge.
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The post-mortem examination was conducted at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS).
"The autopsy report from NEIGRIHMS has indicated there are two sharp cuts on the head of the deceased -- one behind and one on the front," Syiem said.
Raghuvanshi and his wife Sonam went missing in Sohra in East Khasi Hills on May 23 while honeymooning in the picturesque state. His body was found in a gorge near Weisawdong Falls on June 2, while a search for his wife was underway.
A bloodstained machete, which seemed relatively new, was also found near the body, according to police.
Sonam emerged in the early hours in UP's Ghazipur and surrendered before the police as the investigators nabbed four others allegedly involved in the crime that shook the nation.
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