The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi, an accused in the alleged murder of her husband during their honeymoon in Meghalaya last year, holding that she was not entitled to the relief. A bench directed Raghuvanshi to surrender before the trial court within three weeks.
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Sonam Raghuvanshi is among the accused in the high-profile case involving the alleged killing of her husband during the couple’s honeymoon in Meghalaya in 2025. With the apex court cancelling her bail, she will have to return to custody as the criminal proceedings in the case continue before the trial court.
The Meghalaya government had challenged the High Court’s order upholding the trial court’s decision granting bail to Sonam. The High Court had held that Sonam was entitled to bail as the mandatory “grounds of arrest” were not furnished to her at the time of arrest.
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According to the State, however, the grounds of arrest were duly intimated to Sonam and the only defect was a typographical error in the arrest memo. Instead of mentioning Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with the offence of murder, the arrest memo inadvertently referred to Section 403(1), a provision that does not exist.
