By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, June 6: The family of the Indore-based tourist couple—Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi—suspect that Sonam might have been abducted and taken across the border to Bangladesh.
In an act of desperation, Sonam’s father, Devi Singh Raghuvanshi, wrote directly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday.
“We have no faith in the local police,” he told reporters in Indore.
He raised a chilling concern: Sonam had Rs 35,000 in cash and gold jewellery when the couple left Indore — enough, he believed, to attract foul play.
He also hinted that someone might have followed the couple from their stop in Guwahati or from their hotel in Shillong, suggesting this was a premeditated act, possibly even human trafficking.
Meghalaya police, which registered a murder case after Raja’s body was found on June 2, are yet to get clues about Sonam’s whereabouts.
“My daughter has been abducted and is still in the clutches of her captors. Meghalaya police is not investigating the matter properly. They have been negligent right from the beginning. I have been seeking deployment of the army from the day they went missing. If it was done in time, they would have been found safely,” the father told PTI.
He said the Centre must hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
With desperation setting in, Raghuvanshi said he had hung an inverted photograph of Sonam on the advice of an astrologer so that she can be found safely.
“My sister is alive. She has been abducted,” Sonam’s brother Govind said, pleading with authorities in Meghalaya “to stop looking for a dead body” and instead assume Sonam was being held somewhere. (With agency inputs)
