‘Won't break my Gyaras fast': Chilling last call haunts cops as Sonam leads Raja's Raghuvanshi to his death; here's what happened
INDORE: Cops are trying to demystify the timing of the phone call between Sonam and her mother-in-law Uma on the day of Raja Raghuvanshi's murder. They are trying to ascertain the chilling reality whether Raja was already dead when the call happened, or worse, was he being led to his death while Sonam calmly spoke to his family?
The call was placed when the couple was on their way up after visiting double decker bridge in Nongrait village of Shillong, and Sonam told her mother that she would not break her 'Gyaras' fast just because they were away.
"That one call haunts us," said a senior officer. "We now know from interrogations that the murder happened shortly after that phone conversation."
ACP Poonamchand Yadav of the crime branch confirmed to TOI that the sequence of events shared by the accused places the murder soon after that call.
Sonam was carrying a mobile phone at the time. When Raja's mother Uma called and asked to speak to her son, Sonam replied sweetly, "Raja is walking ahead...
his phone is in the bag, I'll get him to call you later." She was panting and so the mother-in-law disconnected the call.
"That was the last time we ever tried to talk to her," Uma said, her voice trembling. "I could never have imagined that the daughter-in-law, speaking so gently on the phone, was actually scouting for a spot to kill my son - perhaps even moments away from doing it."
Police are now analyzing call duration, location data, and voice tone in what they describe as a "cold-blooded calm before the kill."
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