Shillong, June 30 -- The Meghalaya High Court on Monday upheld a Shillong court order granting bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, during their honeymoon in the northeastern state last year. The development comes as a setback to the state government which had challenged the relief. A single bench of justice W Diengdoh dismissed the state's appeal against the April 2026 order of the additional deputy commissioner (judicial), Shillong, which had granted bail to Sonam on procedural grounds. A detailed judgment was awaited till the time paper went to print. The lower court had granted bail after holding that the police had failed to properly communicate to Sonam the grounds of her arrest, thereby prejudicing her defence. In its order, the Shillong court had observed that arrest-related documents, including the checklist justifying arrest, memo of arrest, inspection memo and extracts of the case diary, repeatedly cited section 403(1) of the BNS instead of section 103(1), which deals with punishment for murder.htc...