Shillong, April 30 -- A Shillong court on Tuesday granted bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of getting her husband Raja Raghuvanshi killed during their honeymoon in Meghalaya holding that she was "not effectively informed of the grounds for her arrest, which violated her constitutional rights."

The order, passed by the court of the additional deputy commissioner (judicial), East Khasi Hills, comes after Sonam spent over 10 months in custody since her arrest on June 9, 2025. Her bail plea had been rejected three times earlier.

In a strongly worded ruling, the court stated that the "Intimation of Grounds of Arrest" served to the accused was fundamentally defective. "A bare perusal. would indicate that the petitioner was not informed abou...