Meghalaya Minister Alexander Laloo Hek on Thursday considered the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case as a “pure organised and a pre planned crime”.
The court has remanded all five key accused, including Sonam Raghuvanshi, to eight-day police custody in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, police said on Wednesday.
The Meghalaya minister highlighted that the government and the people of Meghalaya want that the accused of the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case shall be punished as per the law.
“This is a very Meghalaya Minister Alexander Laloo Hek on Thursday considered the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case as a “pure organised and a pre planned crime”. . It was initiated by Sonam Raghuvanshi and it is a pure organised and a pre planned crime. From beginning they wanted to eliminated Raja Raghuvanshi. We have to go with full investigation and they should be punished under the law. The government and people of Meghalaya want that they should be punished as per the law of murdering the person in the state of Meghalaya”, Meghalaya minister Alexander Laloo Hek told ANI on Thursday.
The Meghalaya minister also expressed his happiness after the family of Raja Raghuvanshi apologised to the state government and police. He said that Raja Raghuvanshi’s family was blaming Meghalaya police and state’s people after they heard the shocking news regarding the murder of their son.
Laloo Hek expressed his condolences on demise of Raja Raghuvanshi and congratulated the Meghalaya police for nabbing the culprits of the case. “I would to give my precisions to the Meghalaya state police for doing a very significant job for nabbing the culprits.
Those culprits will be in the remand of the police for eight days. I would like to convey my condolences to the family of Raja Raghuvanshi who was brutally murdered in Meghalaya. I understand that in the beginning they were very angry because after they received the news they were very shocked.
It was very sad that there own son was brutally murdered and at that moment they blamed the people of Meghalaya, police but now we are very happy that they have apologised”, he added.
The state minister revealed that the police have found a mangalsutra and a ring from Sonam Raghuvanshi’s suitcase which was left in their homestay. He considered it as a “vital” clue for the Meghalaya police. “I saw the news that Meghalaya police have found a mangalsutra and ring from Sonam’s suitcase, which was left in the homestay.
So I think this is a very vital clue… The people of Meghalaya and the government of Meghalaya want the accused to be punished according to the law”, he said. Sonam Raghuvanshi, the wife of the victim, along with four others, including Akash Rajput, Vishal Singh Chauhan, Raj Singh Kushwaha and Anand, are accused of murdering Raja Raghuvanshi, who recently got married and went on a honeymoon to Meghalaya.
#WATCH | Shillong: On Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, Meghalaya Minister Alexander Laloo Hek says, "I congratulate the Meghalaya Police for doing a very important job and arresting the accused. I also offer my condolences to the family of Raja Raghuvanshi. They were very angry when… pic.twitter.com/0buPW50mLH
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Raja’s body was found on June 2 in a gorge at Sohra near Cherrapunji in Meghalaya. Sonam Raghuvanshi was later found near a dhaba on the Varanasi-Ghazipur main road. Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife, Sonam, both residents of Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, had gone missing during their honeymoon in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. Raja Raghuvanshi’s body was later recovered in Meghalaya.
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