The family of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi has demanded a CBI investigation into the matter and asked how a Meghalayan court granted bail to his wife Sonam in spite of the fact that she was allegedly the "mastermind" of his murder.
In an effort to obtain justice, Raghuvanshi's relatives announced on Tuesday that they would petition the Meghalaya High Court to overturn the lower court's ruling granting Sonam bail.
In the Sohra area of the East Khasi Hills district in Meghalaya, transport businessman Raja Raghuvanshi vanished on May 23 of last year when the couple was on their honeymoon. On June 2, his disfigured body was discovered in a steep canyon close to a waterfall. In the case, Sonam was arrested along with a number of other people, including her purported lover.

Sonam was granted bail by a Meghalayan court on Tuesday.
"The Meghalaya Police thoroughly investigated the case over the past nine months, but it was beyond our understanding how the game suddenly changed in a month or two," Raja's mother Uma said, choking with emotion as she spoke to reporters. Sonam was the "mastermind" of her son's murder, so she couldn't understand why he was granted bail.Justice for my innocent kid, who was killed, is all we ask of the authorities. "I want the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to look into this case," she continued.

Vipin Raghuvanshi, Raja's older brother, stated that his family will appeal the Meghalaya High Court's ruling granting Sonam bail.Sonam's attorney underlined that the Meghalaya Police had violated the law by failing to properly notify her of the particular reason for her arrest while arguing for her bail application in court.
Vipin claimed he had not yet received a copy of the chargesheet from the prosecution and had not had an opportunity to thoroughly examine it, leading him to fear "manipulation" in the investigation.

Sonam spent more than ten months in judicial detention at Shillong District Jail after being detained on June 9, 2025, in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, on suspicion of conspiring to kill her husband.
Sonam and her purported boyfriend Raj Kushwah were among the eight people named in a 790-page chargesheet that the Meghalaya Police filed in September of last year.