A tourist who visited Meghalaya “accidentally” recorded a video that shows Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife Sonam walking up the trail near the double-decker living root bridge in Nongriat—the day Raja is believed to have been murdered.
The tourist, whose instagram account is m_devsingh, posted the video on June 15. He wrote that he had only discovered the footage while reviewing clips from his trip to Meghalaya.
“I was checking videos and I have found recording of the Indore couple, it was around 9:45am in the morning when we were going down and couple were going up after staying overnight in Nongriat village,” he wrote.
He added that Sonam was wearing the same white shirt which was found near Raja’s body.
The instagrammer also expressed grief about Raja and said, “He was looking normal but unaware of what will be waiting for him.”
Later this evening, the tourist posted another video showing the three arrested accused— Vishal Singh Chauhan, Anand Kurmi and Akash Rajput —ahead of the couple on the trail.
“We crossed paths with the three men at 9:25 am, as per our phone timestamp,” he wrote.
Singh also defended doubts surrounding the first video wherein in viewers had questioned the intent of the post. “Please understand — we are just common people, travellers, with a 360° camera that captures everything — front, back, left, right, without filters, edits, or agendas. There was no cinematic focus. No planned highlight. We just had hours of raw footage saved away, which we hadn’t even gone through fully when we returned home and watched it all much later! We are just travellers who happened to be at the same place that day, unknowingly capturing something that would later connect to such a heartbreaking incident,” he wrote.
He stated that the videos might help with the investigation or to “bring even a tiny piece of memory back to the family.”
