Indore Bride Missing on Honeymoon in Meghalaya, Family Demands CBI Probe
What was meant to be the beginning of a new life turned into a heart-wrenching mystery.
25-year-old Sonam Raghuvanshi from Indore went missing in Meghalaya during her honeymoon last month. Her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi (29), was later found dead at the bottom of a deep gorge near a waterfall in Sohra on June 2—ten days after they were last seen.
The couple had checked out of a homestay in Nongriat village in East Khasi Hills on May 23 after visiting the scenic living root bridges. Their rented scooter was later found abandoned by a roadside cafe, but there was no trace of Sonam.
With no breakthrough yet in locating her, Sonam’s family is demanding a CBI inquiry, accusing Meghalaya police of negligence and slow action. “My daughter was abducted and is still alive,” her father Devi Singh Raghuvanshi said emotionally. “If the army had been deployed earlier, both could have been saved.”
In a desperate act of faith, he has even hung Sonam’s photograph upside down on the advice of an astrologer, hoping she returns safely.
The Meghalaya police have registered a murder case following Raja’s death, and forensic clues including a white shirt, medicine strip, mobile phone parts, and a smartwatch were recovered from the scene—but Sonam’s fate remains unknown.
The couple had married on May 11 and left for Meghalaya on May 20, excited for a peaceful honeymoon in the Northeast. Now, her family is left pleading for national attention and intervention.
News Source : Information for this article was gathered from a variety of reliable news outlets.
