INDORE: A phone call between Sonam Raghuvanshi (in pic) and her mother-in-law on the day of Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder has become a chilling focus of the police investigation – was Raja already dead by then, or worse, was he being led to his death while Sonam calmly spoke to his family?.
ACP Poonamchand Yadav told TOI that the sequence of events shared by the accused times the murder soon after that call. “That one call haunts us,” he said. “We now know from interrogations that the murder happened shortly after that phone conversation.” The call was placed when the couple was reported to be on their way up after visiting a double-decker bridge in Shillong’s Nongrait village. Sonam told her mother-in-law, Uma Raghuvanshi, that she would not break her ‘Gyaras’ fast just because they were away.