Shillong: Following the conditional bail granted to prime accused Sonam Raghuvanshi in the murder case of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, another accused in the case, Raj Kushwaha, moved the court for bail on Wednesday, citing similar grounds of procedural lapses during their arrests.Along with Raj, three others — Akash Rajput, Anand Kurmi and Vishal Singh Chauhan — are lodged in Shillong jail following their arrest in the case. The other three are expected to apply for bail soon.“We have moved a bail. Sonam was granted bail yesterday. So we took the same plea – the arrest was not proper and it was not as mandated for the arrest procedure,” defence lawyer Phuyosa Yobin said, adding that similar relief was also being sought for the other accused persons on grounds of parity.He said a bail application for the second accused, Raj Singh Kushwaha alias Raj, has already been submitted. “The court has reserved the order and we are expecting it any moment. We have been approached by the parents of the accused persons and me and my team is taking up the matter,” he said, referring to the two other accused persons who are in jail. Bail applications on their behalf will be filed shortly, he added. “The police have done their job and their best. But as defence lawyers, we will have to find the loopholes of the police investigations. Police claim that it is a water-tight charge-sheet and I believe so,” Yobin said.The court of additional DC (Judicial), East Khasi Hills, Shillong, Dashalene R. Kharbteng on April 27 granted bail to Sonam on grounds of procedural lapses, stating that the police had failed to effectively communicate to her the grounds of arrest.
