'Big news from Meghalaya.'
'A newly married couple from Indore, Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi,'
'have gone missing under mysterious circumstances.'
'They got married on 11th May.'
'After that, they went to Meghalaya on 20th May for their honeymoon.'
'Their last known location is said to be Sohra.'
'Meghalaya Police is now looking for them.'
Sonam and Raja's case.
Till now, the internet, media,
newspapers, and news channels have all told their own stories.
But this story is different.
Looking at all this, I remember the film 'Karz'.
I remember the song, 'Ek Haseena Thi, Ek Deewana Tha.'
I don't know what he saw in Sonam.
He said, 'Mom, this girl is perfect.'
But on the 7th day, when we found the body of Raja in Wei Sawdong,
that actually changed everything.
But the only question then was,
'Where is Sonam?'
I am the officer in charge of the Sohra police station.
My name is Sub-Inspector Anthony Kongsang.
On the evening of 24th May,
we received a call from the 'Sardar',
who was like the headman.
So, the headman of Sohra village
contacted the police station,
informing us that a scooter had been abandoned.
So, when we cross-checked
the ownership details of the scooter,
we found that it belonged to one person.
So, we contacted that person, and he told us
he had rented the scooter
to Raja Raghuvanshi from Madhya Pradesh.
The search continued from the 26th onward.
And the 26th was also the day
when the brother of Raja Raghuvanshi submitted a missing report here.
And we continued the search.
It was only on the 2nd or 3rd of June, if I am not mistaken,
that they reached the spot.
The next day, we found a machete.
So, that gave us a hint
that this is the weapon which was used to execute the murder.
While the search was ongoing,
we began extending it to other areas as well,
where we found a rain jacket.
We found a rain jacket, later identified as Sonam's.
His body was bludgeoned.
There were two fatal blows.
There was a broken mobile.
A lot of things didn't sit in place, you know.
Things were not...
Things were amiss out here.
Something was not right.
It was not like a conventional crime, you know.
And of course, the body had started...
There was...
It started decomposing
and was bloated.
So, you really couldn't make out until we got the post-mortem...
Autopsy done.
But...
That really took a different turn because...
The bike was found in one place,
and the body was found somewhere else, 10 kilometres away.
The search was conducted in the vicinity,
but Sonam was not found.
But we kept hoping that we'd find Sonam.
So, it took a few more days to look for her.
I am Sachin Raghuvanshi, Raja Raghuvanshi's older brother.
What should I say about that moment? I couldn't see it, but Vipin did.
Only he knows what he went through.
The radiance my brother's face had since childhood
was no longer there.
Only Vipin knows what he went through when he saw his face.
Don't ask me about that moment.
I was shattered when Raja's body came.
I couldn't even see Raja's face.
I mean, I never imagined that my son would come like this.
He came in a coffin.
When I went outside, I could not believe
that Raja was in it.
We were so happy at his wedding,
and then, suddenly, a tragic event occurred. It was such a sad thing.
I asked his name, and he said, 'My name is Raja.'
I said, 'You are Raja. You'll always be a 'raja' (king).'
Raja is no more. Now, I don't know who to talk to.
He was pampered the most at home.
Even the kids used to call him Raja.
They used to tease him, saying, 'Raja, where are you going?'
They would not treat him as an uncle.
The kids would treat him as a brother.
All three siblings were very close.
They had a very good relationship.
They could not live without each other.
All three of them used to discuss everything.
When he was young, he was a little reserved.
When he grew up, he started going to the office.
So, all three siblings used to talk to each other freely.
Raja was not a mind-reader. He was an ordinary boy.
A son of his parents.
He had an arranged marriage.
Just like parents get their children married.
They might have decided on it after thinking it through.
They might have had discussions.
The parents approved it, which means she is from a good family.
People consider the family, not the girl,
in an arranged marriage.
And in love marriages, the girl is considered, not the family.
That's the big difference.
I'm Mukesh Kumar Mangal. I'm a crime reporter at Nai Duniya.
Their relationship started
through a magazine of the Raghuvanshi community,
which is often printed on Ram Navami.
It contains the marriage biodata of boys and girls.
And that's how the families got in touch.
Both families talked and fixed the alliance.
He saw her on an app.
He saw her on an app for the Raghuvanshis.
I don't know what he saw in Sonam.
He said, 'Mom, this girl is perfect.'
'She is getting many proposals. I think she is very popular.'
'Sonam is perfect. Both Sonam and I are into business.'
'So, we'll get along well.'
'And we can grow our businesses.'
That's why he chose her.
In the Raghuvanshi community,
if both girl and boy are 'mangalik', they get married.
Because of a 'mangalik' wedding, the couple gets along well,
and the risk of accidents decreases.
So I asked, 'Sonam, do you like our Raja?'
'Tell us whether you like him or not.'
So, she smiled and lowered her head.
Then I said, 'Let Raja and Sonam talk to each other.'
We let them talk privately in a room for 10-15 minutes.
We went there with the marriage proposal.
They suggested
we get them married after two months.
When the alliance was fixed,
there was no auspicious date for three months.
We didn't feel anything was amiss during our conversation with them.
When Raja wanted to take her out on a date,
her mom said, 'Her dad doesn't allow it.'
'The girl doesn't go anywhere after 7 pm.'
'She goes straight home from the office.'
We were pleased, thinking she was a homely girl,
and her parents were taking good care of her.
But we didn't know that they had something else on their minds.
They were in a hurry to get them married.
They used to call us daily
and say, 'Our preparations are done. Why aren't yours done yet?'
So, we told them it was Holi, the Phagun month,
and that we couldn't buy anything during this month.
So, we didn't make any preparations.
We can't say they rushed it.
Both families decided it. They fixed the date.
Both families fixed it.
We can't say they rushed it.
We weren't in a hurry.
When we went there for the engagement,
we said we would get them married after Diwali.
We just wanted to get them engaged.
'If we wait for four months, they will know each other better.'
'It will be good for them.'
They said their priest had said
there was no good date for the wedding after Diwali.
He said there was no good date for their union.
Raja didn't have anything on his mind.
Raja was very happy on the day of the wedding.
As people worry about certain things,
that wasn't the case with Raja.
Raja was really happy.
During the wedding procession, we all danced.
Everyone in the family danced.
I asked Raja,
'Are you happy?' He didn't say anything. He was feeling shy.
He was a quiet guy.
He wouldn't talk much. He was very reserved.
At the wedding, I asked him if he was upset,
and he said, 'It's nothing, dad.'
He was happy.
After the wedding... - After the wedding...
He... - He...
And his friends... - And his friends...
Can go anywhere.
He agreed to fulfil all the promises.
He said he would learn how to make tea for you.
You have to make this promise.
And his friends... - And his friends...
Can party anywhere. - Can party anywhere.
He can spend the night anywhere. - No.
I'll never ask... - I'll ask.
Where have you been? - I'll ask that.
Who were you with?
- Raja, you are doomed.
She was married off.
But her happiness, compromises,
vision,
and what she wanted are the things she didn't get to choose.
Two days ago, before leaving,
Raja came to the dining table and told me,
'Mom, the tickets have been booked. I am going out tomorrow.'
I said, 'Son, you didn't want to go.'
'Why are you going out suddenly?
He said, 'Mom, I didn't book the tickets, Sonam did.'
He didn't even meet me before going.
She picked him up from the office and took him away.
She booked the tickets herself.
His mom told me about it.
I asked, 'Where is Raja?'
She said, 'Raja went out.'
She took him away on the pretext of visiting the Kamakhya Temple.
Otherwise, Raja wouldn't have gone.
Because he had already refused.
He said, 'I don't have any plans to go out. I don't want to go now.'
But she said, 'No, I want to visit the Kamakhya Temple.'
'I made a votive to visit it after marriage.'
So, she persuaded him and took him away.
He couldn't understand anything. So, he left.
There was a twist
in this case on 23rd May.
Around 2 pm.
Sonam and Raja were on their honeymoon in Shillong.
When they went to a mountainous area,
Sonam called her mother-in-law, Uma Raghuvanshi, around 1.30 pm.
She told her
that they had arrived. She sounded tired.
She was panting and climbing the stairs.
She said, 'He has taken me far away.'
'I don't have any food to eat here.'
'I got coffee, which was bland. I threw it.'
'Hello. - Hello.'
'Yes? - Isn't Raja's phone on?'
'Not yet. We are climbing up right now.'
'We will call you when we reach the top.'
'You are fasting today, right?'
'I am fasting. He told me to eat a couple of times.'
'But I won't break my fast for sightseeing.'
'I was cooking, and suddenly, I remembered it.'
'I thought my daughter-in-law was fasting today.'
'Yes.'
'I'm making 'khichdi'. - My mom called me in the morning.'
'Okay.'
'She reminded me about the fast. I said, Yes.'
'Yes, you can eat dairy products'
'like milk, 'lassi', or whatever is available during your fast.'
'It's not possible. Nothing is available in this jungle area.'
When they couldn't contact him...
They had four phones.
Their phones were switched off. So, Raja's family
contacted the local crime branch
through their acquaintances and told them...
A couple...
Raja's brother told them that his brother
and sister-in-law had gone to Shillong for their honeymoon.
His mother talked to them around 1.30 am.
Then their phones were switched off.
Then, from Raja's family, his brother, Vipin,
and Sonam's brother, Govind,
went to Shillong.
There was a twist. There was a guy who was a guide.
Albert Pade.
He brought a twist to the whole story.
When the police spoke to him, he said he offered
his services to them. He asked, 'Would you like a guide?'
Sonam and Raja refused.
They said they didn't need a guide
because they had already hired a guide.
Then, he said that he saw them going with three people.
Early in the morning...
I went down.
I saw them halfway.
I saw them here.
Raja and three other people.
They stood together there.
Sonam was standing behind them.
That's it. Then, I went down.
Well, the three killers...
A lot of profiling was done.
The people, especially the guide,
who had actually seen the couple
with those three people... Then profiling started.
After profiling these people, we traced them to where they...
To...
A lot of technical analysis was also done.
In Lalitpur...
Vishal was in Lalitpur.
He was the first person picked up.
But when I told him my team is about 8 km from Indore,
he said, 'Have they come to make some enquiries?'
I said, 'No, they have come to make an arrest.'
He said, 'Have you got suspects?
I said, 'No, they have come to arrest.'
'The first picture of all four culprits, including Raj Kushwaha,'
'is in front of you.'
'These accused are in the custody of the Meghalaya police.'
When Raja's dead body came,
we didn't take note of Raj Kushwaha.
When Raj Kushwaha's photo was leaked,
my dad said, 'That boy sat next to me.'
He came with his dad.
Then we took out the cameras.
We checked the footage.
Raj Kushwaha was there. He even brought the shroud.
At that time, we didn't know that Raj Kushwaha was involved.
We didn't know that.
We thought that the children had been kidnapped.
We only found out about it later.
Sonam used to take care of her father, Devi Singh,
and her brother, Govind's,
plywood business.
This is an interesting incident.
Raj used to work there.
He used to call her 'didi' (older sister).
Even on his phone, her number was saved as 'Sonam Didi'.
While working,
Raj won everyone's heart
and started taking care
of funding, liquidity and cash flow.
We got information
that Sonam Raghuvanshi had contacted her family members
from one of the eateries in Ghazipur.
Then, she surrendered at Nandganj Police Station.
So that was it.
'A huge piece of information.'
'A search operation was underway to locate Sonam Raghuvanshi.'
'Zee News is breaking this information.'
'Raja Raghuvanshi's wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi,'
'has been found in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh.'
She was being looked for everywhere, not just Shillong.
They went to the extent of exploring a Bangladesh connection.
Like, it's possible she was sent to Bangladesh.
So, the agencies and the police
were searching nationwide.
They were looking for her everywhere.
She said, 'Make the first call to my brother, Govind.'
At that time, Govind was searching for her in Shillong.
So, Govind said, 'Let me talk to the eatery owner.'
The eatery owner talked to him.
So, Govind said, 'She is my sister.'
'Search for the Raja Raghuvanshi or Sonam Raghuvanshi case on Google,'
'and you will understand what the case is.'
'Please take her in.'
'I am leaving from here and informing the police.'
Govind contacted the Ghazipur police.
The Ghazipur police reached the eatery.
They took her into custody.
They informed the Indore police.
At that time, the Indore Police were interrogating
Raj Kushwaha and Vishal Chauhan.
This case was kept
so secret
that the accused were not kept
at any police station.
Shillong Police didn't let anyone
find out that they were in Indore,
and that there was
an investigation or interrogation going on.
When she had actually surrendered at the eatery
and reached the closest...
We had contacted the SHO and all that close by.
And she said that she had escaped from the clutches
of certain people, which actually didn't fall into place.
We all knew.
It was bound to happen.
The game was up.
It was up.
The Additional Police Commissioner contacted the Ghazipur police,
and he spoke to Sonam on a video call.
Sonam started crying.
She described what had happened to her in broken words.
She was making up all the stories she could make.
She said, 'They took me away.'
The police kept listening to her.
Raj was sitting next to her.
When they put pressure on Raj
and gave him the third degree,
Raj told them everything.
The police arranged a video call between Sonam and Raj.
Sonam was told that her lie had been caught.
She couldn't get away. She got Raja killed.
Then it became clear that it was a planned killing.
A team from Shillong...
Since the investigation and the case were registered in Shillong,
a team from Shillong went to Ghazipur
and took Sonam into their custody.
Well, she had been staying in Indore. And then...
The plan was that she would resurface somewhere.
And... A vehicle was hired.
She would travel
and resurface somewhere in Siliguri and then come up.
Because it just happened. I think it was providence.
The operational team went on the same day.
They also planned to come out that day.
And things went...
I think it was karma.
It was the same day, the 8th.
They went out, we came in.
And things went wrong for them.
She was supposed to resurface.
Her story was that she was trafficked
or kidnapped by some people, and then she escaped from them.
That was her story.
And she would get all the sympathy.
Thankfully, that day, the operational team went there.
When they caught these people, everything came out.
At that time, we felt that...
Sonam... I mean...
The media came...
I mean, Mithilesi came.
He said, 'Aunt, Sonam is the murderer of Raja.
So I said, 'It's not possible. How could Sonam do such a thing?'
'Sonam was his wife.'
'Why would Sonam kill him?'
Until Raj Kushwaha was caught, we didn't believe it.
When Raj Kushwaha and the other three were caught,
we were completely convinced
that it was Sonam's conspiracy.
I want to ask Sonam, 'Why did you kill my Raja?'
The plan was devised by Raj and Sonam.
Whatever plan was made, both were equally responsible.
I am Uday Pratap Singh. I have been in journalism for the past 20 years.
These people arrived in Assam by plane.
They went to the Kamakhya Temple in Assam.
As soon as they reached Assam,
Aakash, Vishal and Anand
followed them.
But at that time, they didn't stay nearby.
They kept looking for a chance.
The Kamakhya Temple is a public place. It's crowded.
So the chances of committing such a crime there...
They planned to make their first attempt there.
They thought they'd get their first chance there.
They planned to murder him somewhere in the mountain region.
Sonam became very aggressive during this time.
She thought the day had been wasted.
Raja should've been killed that day.
She wondered how long she would keep him engaged.
So she brought Vishal, Anand and Aakash
to Shillong's remote area.
The investigation found
that whenever a couple goes on a honeymoon,
they look for a good hotel.
But these people booked a simple one, not a good one.
It was also Sonam's plan.
So Sonam chose a hotel
with no cameras or security system.
So that they could talk to anyone or plan anything.
Before going to the murder site,
they had kept their bag at a guest house.
Since cameras were installed there,
Sonam was spotted talking outside.
At that time, Sonam was a little aggressive.
I spoke to the guest house staff,
and he told me that Sonam was talking outside.
During this time, when they were in Nongriat,
they met Aakash.
Raja didn't know anyone.
All three of them were strangers to him.
But Raj told Sonam about them on the phone.
So, those men told him they were from Madhya Pradesh,
and they had come for sightseeing.
So, he thought, 'They should travel together.'
Such friendship usually forms in public places.
They were from the same place.
So they started travelling together.
Raja didn't know that Sonam was involved with them.
Raja's phone was switched off a day before.
I made a call on Sonam's phone.
So Sonam said he was ahead
and that she would have him talk to me later.
Then, she had Raja talk to me after some time.
Then I asked Raja.
Raja said, 'Mom, I just reached the top.'
'I have been walking since morning.'
I asked Raja what he had eaten.
He said, 'Mom, I'm eating bananas,'
'and I'm at the top.'
I asked him what was at the bottom.
He said that he had gone to see the waterfall.
I asked him why he exerted himself so much.
That's what we talked about. He said, 'Mom, it's a great place.'
So, I asked him to send a video of it.
He said, 'Mom, I will send it later. There is a network problem.'
'Are you recording the video or not?'
'You're not uploading any videos.'
'What have you seen so far?'
'What have you seen?'
'Tell me, Raja.'
'There is an internet problem.'
'The internet is not working. I'll send it when I get network.'
'There is an internet problem.'
'He is just moving around.'
'Come back. - Hmm.'
'How many days are left? Two more days?'
'Two days left.'
'Two. - Hmm.'
'Two. You must be exhausted today.'
'You must be exhausted today. - What?'
'Yes.'
I asked him to make a video call.
It was Sonam's phone.
She didn't let Raja make a video call.
She told him not to make a video call,
and that they were okay and they would return soon.
He told me they were leaving. Raja told me
that they were leaving the place.
The question is, why didn't Raj come?
It's because Raja had seen Raj at the wedding.
If Raj had come,
he would've been recognised.
So, Raj stayed in Indore,
did all the planning there,
and those three men followed his orders.
Suddenly, I felt uneasy at night.
I was restless and couldn't sleep.
I wondered why I was feeling uneasy.
When I woke up in the morning, I told Raja's brothers
that Raja's phone was unreachable, but Sonam's was reachable.
So, they called Sonam's brother.
They told him to call Sonam to see if she answered his call.
And that she wasn't answering their calls.
Her brother said that she wasn't answering his calls either.
We took all of them and...
Of course, we caught each of them separately
because we wanted to see what...
We wanted to check the veracity of their version.
We went straight from the place
where they had parked their two-wheeler
to go to the homestay in Nongriat,
which is about a two-and-a-half-hour trek on foot.
From there, they showed us what had happened.
That was the point
where all of them met.
The three assailants,
Sonam and Raja.
Sonam didn't know the place.
She had never been there.
So she...
So they drove into this place,
and Raja was very fond of photography and all that.
He was taking photographs and all that.
That gave them an opportunity.
What's interesting is that when this crime was committed
near the secluded creek...
Based on the police's recreated scene
and what we learned from the locals,
it was revealed
that they were looking for a chance to kill Raja.
They had two weapons with them.
Vishal attacked first with a machete,
and then Aakash attacked him.
He sustained two attacks on his head.
After the attacks, he fell unconscious.
Then, they wondered what to do.
At the time, Sonam screamed.
His condition became serious.
That's when they threw his body into the creek.
It was thrown from a precipice, from a high point.
So, it had many platforms.
We were very lucky
that it landed on one of the ledges.
The stone ledges.
There was a stone precipice like this.
But it had a ledge.
If he hadn't fallen on that ledge,
wild animals would've gotten him, and we would've...
They would have torn the body apart,
and we wouldn't have been able to identify anything.
They took their scooter
and left Raja and Sonam's scooter in a corner.
Aakash's clothes were stained with blood.
So, Sonam gave him the black jacket that she was wearing.
Aakash wore the black jacket.
On the way, they threw the jacket,
which the police recovered.
From Guwahati to Lokhra ISBT, she travelled by car.
Then, she took a bus to Siliguri.
From there to Patna by bus, from Patna to Arrah,
from Arrah to Lucknow by train,
and from Lucknow to Indore by bus.
And during this time, a burqa was also used by Sonam.
The burqa, which Raja had provided to Aakash.
She wore that burqa so that her identity would remain hidden.
You will see that she also changed the modes of her transit
so that her identity was not revealed.
If she had used the same mode, she would've been found.
She bought general tickets to keep her identity hidden.
She kept changing her movements.
Sonam came to Indore after
the murder.
And she had rented a room in Heera Bagh Colony,
which was her safe house.
Raj had planned for that.
He prepared a rent agreement in Vishal's name
and got a flat.
He kept Sonam in that same flat.
After Raj's arrest,
around the 8th or 9th of June,
she was dramatically caught in Ghazipur.
The most shocking thing, if you ask me, was
how one can think of murdering somebody
and go ahead and marry that person.
That's the most shocking thing.
I mean, there are a lot of cases. I have so many murder cases,
but this is unique in the sense
that one is going to marry somebody
and also think right from that point of time
that after I marry, I am going to murder the person.
That was most shocking.
It is possible that she killed him for her lover, Raj.
But it is possible that after a few months, she gets fed up with Raj
and starts looking for someone else.
This is a personality, and personality is wavering.
It is not stable.
So we cannot say what is on her mind.
This time, she may have done it for Raj.
Later, Raj might be murdered for someone else, so we can't be sure.
This is a very interesting point.
Raja was very disappointed with Sonam.
We learned from his friends
that Sonam's behaviour towards him was not right.
Usually, when a boy and a girl get engaged,
the boy talks a lot with his fiancée.
Both the girl and the boy talk to each other.
She wants to know about his daily routine, his attire,
his work, his circle, she wants to know everything.
The same is true for the boy.
But this was not happening with Raja.
After they got engaged,
Raja once told his mother that she didn't want to talk to him.
So his mother said that it was okay. It must be work pressure.
Sometimes, Sonam would say,
'I do not have time because of office work,'
'so I cannot talk to you much.'
Now, Raja tried his best
to make her his companion.
There is a courtship period.
Sometimes it is for 6 months, sometimes for a year,
and sometimes for a few months.
During this time, they basically get to know each other.
That is why the courtship period is important.
So they can get to know each other,
go out together, and spend time together.
Here, Sonam refused.
Sonam did not want to go out with him.
How could she go out with a stranger?
With a man with whom she can neither unite physically
nor emotionally?
She was physically and emotionally involved with Raj.
It is also possible that Sonam's family is hiding something.
Like...
Maybe because of the fear of defamation.
Or maybe Raj's profile was very small to them.
He was their employee. He did not have a house.
He used to get 10-12 thousand rupees.
And she owned such a big empire.
They might've thought that after marriage, she would forget all this
and move on with her life.
A mother is a mother, right? She's a woman.
What do you expect from a mom who knows about her daughter's deed?
The mother might've learned about the affair.
So, they planned her wedding,
and the girl agreed immediately.
So, I'd say, the mother is equally responsible.
Sonam's mother is just as responsible as Sonam.
They might've known about this. We don't know.
They might've thought that once she was married,
she would settle down, get busy with her married life,
grow a family, and forget about the boy.
That's what they would've thought.
She had a relationship... Raj had a relationship with her.
In fact, there is also evidence to show the relationship.
Raja had bought jewellery for her.
Last year, he had already bought jewellery
and a 'mangalsutra'.
There were plans for marriage also.
They may have planned to run away. I don't know.
But they were already in love and already had plans
for marriage.
He did not want to lose Sonam.
They had a physical relationship,
and they were deeply in love.
They were trying to be together.
So during that time, they were spending time together.
While preparations for her marriage were underway,
she was in contact with Raj.
So during that time, the manipulation and premeditation
of the murder...
I mean, the process of murder was going on.
That process kept going on
in Sonam's and Raja's minds.
That whoever comes between us, we will kill him.
Since Raj was continuously in contact with her,
she became conflicted.
On the one hand, Raja, who was chosen by the parents,
and on the other hand, the love with which she wanted,
with whom she wanted to settle down.
And he was not worthy of that.
He was not at the same level as Raja
in terms of luxury, comfort, love, conversation, status,
looks, and body language.
The parents chose him for her.
But she could not move away from Raj.
She could not forget the love of the night.
She felt that she could only live with him.
She could never live with Raja.
After both of them thought it through and confirmed it,
she married Raja.
They decided to eliminate him.
She attempted three times.
Raj and Sonam attempted to kill Raja three times after marriage.
This clearly shows that this was a premeditated plan.
This was a plan they had considered long before marriage.
She hadn't even been intimate with him.
This is because she had accepted Raj
as her husband physically and emotionally.
Since she had accepted Raj, Raja became collateral damage,
and she tried to send a message.
A message to her parents. 'I had told you'
'there would be consequences.'
She wanted to set an example.
She thought that once widowed,
it would be hard to find a match.
She would tell her parents, 'My husband died.'
'What should I do now?'
'I have no one else. No one will marry me.'
When the new bride becomes a widow,
what would the parents do?
Who would they go to?
Then Raj would come onto the scene.
When Raj would come onto the scene,
they would agree to marry her to Raj.
But when Sonam's wedding to Raja was fixed,
their love grew deeper.
They started loving each other even more.
Because...
At that time, she planned
with Raj to get rid of Raja after the wedding.
By the way, they made a lot of plans.
Earlier, they thought
that they would take him to some other place and kill him.
Then they thought that she would fall into a river.
She would swim to the other side.
She would disappear to give the impression
that she was washed away.
Or she would go out with Raja,
she would push Raja from a height and kill him.
So she had been planning such things for a long time.
As soon as the alliance was formed
and the engagement was fixed,
they became busy with extensive planning.
However, their plans didn't fall into place.
And it was decided that they would kill him on their honeymoon.
See, there were many signs.
Like I said, you know, Soman was the pivot of this whole thing,
while Raj handled the operational side.
But Sonam was the one who wanted all these things.
Even after marriage, Sonam went back to her parents' house to stay.
I don't think she had any liking for Raja from the outset.
She was hell-bent on carrying on this thing.
People were wondering what the reason behind her apathy was.
If she were in love, she should've said so.
Her neighbours even said
that Sonam was not happy with the marriage.
She used to get angry, she used to shout.
So the people in the neighbourhood even reported
that there was a lot of noise coming from her house.
Usually, where there is going to be a wedding,
there shouldn't be such fights.
So it was said that Sonam and her father used to fight.
She was not ready for marriage. She must have told them.
But her parents were pressuring her.
So, she had to get married.
Sonam told her mother to do whatever she wanted
because Sonam had not given her consent to the wedding,
and that she would face the consequences.
Look, we cannot call it smashing the general patriarchy.
But it is possible that she wanted
to get out of her family's pressure.
In India, many families are patriarchal,
and women have to forcefully get married many times.
They have to compromise.
And maybe that happened with her.
But maybe she wanted to get liberated.
She knew that her family would not be able to liberate her.
That is why she had to take this terrible step.
Sonam Raghuvanshi was a very independent girl.
And when she wanted to settle down,
she told her parents many times
about the person she loved.
She told them, 'I love him.'
The parents said no.
'You will not marry Raj.'
'Why?'
'Raj is not worthy of you.'
'We will decide who is worthy of you.'
'Someone who can give you money,'
'status,'
'luxury and comfort.'
'You don't need to work.'
'Be the mistress of the house.'
It was Raja.
But she wasn't in love with Raja.
She felt like her parents treated her like a puppet.
She told her family,
'You need to understand this.'
'If not Raj, then no one else.'
'Whoever you tie with me...'
Here, it was poor Raja.
If there had been someone else in his place,
she would have done the same to him.
She considered him an obstacle.
I mean a hurdle.
A hurdle between two lovers.
A hurdle that her parents put in her path.
The mother made her daughter her enemy
by telling her she had to marry him.
You know the inner talks of the houses.
You know how a mother persuades her daughter.
'I would die. What would the world say?'
'Dear, think about it. Your dad is getting old.'
'Your grandfather is getting old.'
'Something needs to be done. We need to do things.'
So, you need to consider all these things.
During that time, she said all these things
and even refused,
saying, 'I will take revenge for this.'
In a way, she had told this to the family.
'There will be consequences.'
The parents could not understand the consequences.
They thought, 'What could be the consequences?'
'What would be the consequences?'
'What's the worst that could happen?'
'We will see the consequences. You will have to marry him.'
'We cannot discard our daughter.'
So the parents, to give their daughter the best,
got her married.
Sonam agreed to get married.
Because without her consent, this marriage would not have happened.
So when she received an offer of marriage, she accepted it.
She wanted to be with Raja.
That's why they also planned the honeymoon.
To start a new life... We have faith in the Kamakhya Temple.
If a couple goes there after marriage,
their relationship tends to be very good.
I have seen the CCTV footage
from the Sadar Police Station
showing that Sonam was behaving normally.
Even the police were saying that she was not feeling remorse.
She didn't feel any guilt.
There's one thing about Sonam. When I read her
disposition after all this,
she looked unfazed, totally.
Well, the only hope is that she doesn't go on a killing spree again.
Sonam didn't get the time to think
that she would feel remorse or guilt.
Because she had belonged to Raj from the beginning.
She could never become Raja's.
So to her, he was a hurdle. A rock
that her parents put in her way despite her disapproval.
They had made a picture in their minds
that it was very important to eliminate Raja.
I would like to request that the government
punish her in such a way
that no girl ever commits such a crime.
Because of that girl,
those three boys were lured with money,
and their families were also affected.
My family was affected.
Because of a girl, many families have been destroyed.
She should receive either life imprisonment
or a death sentence.
We want no one to meet
the same fate as Raja.
That is why we are raising this question.
If Raja gets justice,
and a girl like Sonam gets punished,
other men like Raja will be safe.
Otherwise, others may meet the same fate as Raja.
I miss him.
I think about Raja often.
Sometimes, I wake up at 5 am, sometimes at 6 am,
and sometimes at 6:30 am.
I sit in front of his photo for half an hour.
I look at him.
I feel he is still inside this house.
His soul is restless.
If I meet Sonam, I will ask her,
'Sonam, why did you do this?'
'If you didn't want to marry Raja, you could have refused.'
'What did you gain by killing Raja? Why did you kill him?'