The kin of an Indore-based woman who went missing in Meghalaya urged the Union government on Friday to hand over the case to the CBI after expressing dissatisfaction with the State police.
Sonam Raghuvanshi (25) and her husband Raja Raghuvanshi (29) disappeared on May 23 hours after they checked out of a homestay at Nongriat village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district. Raja’s body was found in a deep gorge near Weisawdong waterfall in Sohra area on June 2.
Meghalaya police, which registered a murder case after Raja’s body was found, 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,” Sonam’s father Devi Singh Raghuvanshi 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.
After their marriage here on May 11, the couple left for Meghalaya on May 20 for their honeymoon, kin said. (PTI)
