The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed authorities in Indore to ensure that no effigies of Sonam Raghuvanshi—accused of conspiring to kill her husband during their honeymoon—or any other individuals are burnt during the upcoming Dussehra festivities.

A single bench of Justice Pranay Verma passed the order on Saturday while hearing a petition filed by Sonam’s mother, Sangeeta Raghuvanshi, who challenged the plan of an Indore-based social organisation to publicly burn effigies of women accused of heinous crimes.

Sonam’s husband, Raja Raghuvanshi, went missing on May 23 during the couple’s honeymoon in Meghalaya. His mutilated body was recovered on June 2 from a ravine near a waterfall in the Sohra area (Cherrapunji) of East Khasi Hills. Sonam and several others, including her alleged b

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