New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (July 3) declined to stay the bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the alleged murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, even as the Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta argued that the Meghalaya high court had upheld the bail over “typographical error” in the arrest documents.A vacation bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Sheel Nagu issued notice on Meghalaya police’s special leave petition but refused to suspend the bail, observing that the accused had already been released and was complying with the condition imposed by the Shillong trial court, reported Live Law.Appearing for the state, Mehta, the country’s top law officer, submitted that six other contemporaneous documents correctly reflected the grounds of arrest and contended that the issue had not been raised during earlier bail applications filed by the accused. As per the Live Law report, the state also argued that the trial court’s order was contrary to settle law on consecutive bail applications, relying on an earlier Supreme Court judgment that held a clerical error causing no demonstrable prejudice cannot be itself justify bail.During the hearing, Justice Sundresh maintained that the grounds of arrest had never been effectively communicated to Sonam and pointed out that she was already complying with stringent bail conditions, including remaining in Shillong. However, the bench also noted that that it had prima facie reservations about the high court’s judgment upholding the bail.The Meghalaya high court in its judgment, dated June 29, had specifically rejected the state counsel’s argument that the discrepancy was only an inadvertent clerical error. Upholding the Shillong trial court’s order to grant bail, Justice W. Diengdoh held that the police did not accurately inform the accused of the grounds of her arrest, observing that the document had been prepared “without any application of mind” and contained allegations unrelated to the case, reported The Hindu. The high court stated that this violated the constitutional safeguards available to an arrested individual and clarified that its findings were confined to the legality of the arrest procedure and did not reflect on the merits of the investigation or the trial.“The foundational basis for building up a case against the accused/respondent being found lacking, all other attempts to rectify the subsequent actions or process will have to fail,” Justice Diengdoh had ruled, according to The Hindu.The case related to the alleged murder of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, whose body was recovered from a deep gorge in the state’s Sohra region on June 2, 2025, after the couple went missing on May 23 while on their honeymoon. According to the prosecution, the murder was part of a premeditated conspiracy for financial gain, involving the co-accused Raj Kushwaha. Sonam was arrested in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, on June 9, 2025.