Guwahati, June 12 (UNI) The Kamakhya temple authority has taken strong objection to the allegation of human sacrifice involving the Mother Goddess Kamakhya behind the murder of Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, whose body was found in Meghalaya.

Some of the relatives of deceased Raghuvanshi during recent television talk shows said that his wife had performed black magic and used him for human sacrifice. The family also linked the visit of the couple to the Kamakhya temple and the murder and speculated that Raghuvanshi’s wife Sonam probably offered the human sacrifice to fulfil her desire to be with another man.

“We condemn these kinds of statements. There is no relevance of human sacrifice in Kamakhya temple. For centuries the Kamakhya temple is known for its Vedic rituals. There is no ritual of human sacrifice here. Apart from this case also, whenever there is a murder case in the vicinity of Kamakhya temple, the issue of human sacrifice in the temple is alleged,” said Saru Doloi (junior priest) of the temple Himadri Sharma.

Sarma said the state and Central government must ensure that no one should tarnish the image of the historical Kamakhya temple with such baseless allegations. “Such allegations have hurt the sentiments of people here, lakhs of devotees from different parts of the country and abroad come to Kamakhya temple every year. Such allegations would put the temple in bad light, which is not expected,” he said.

Sarma urged the government in Assam to make stern rules so that no one can level such kinds of allegations against the temple, which is one of the revered Shakti Peeths in the country.

Raghuvanshi and his wife Sonam got married on May 11 and visited Guwahati and Meghalaya on a honeymoon trip. They reached Meghalaya on May 20 and both went missing on May 23 from a homestay in Nongriat village in Sohra, Meghalaya.

However, police recovered the body of Raghuvanshi from a gorge near a waterfall in Cherrapunji on June 2 while Sonam remained missing. On June 9, police from Indore and Uttar Pradesh rescued Sonam from a Dhaba in Gazipur in UP.

Police later took Sonam into custody and arrested four others and claimed that Raghuvanshi was murdered by Sonam and her former lover Raj Kushawaha by hiring contract killers.

Meghalaya police who have taken custody of all the five suspects, including Sonam, however, says that it is a planned murder and that it was Sonam who lured Raghuvanshi to northeast for executing the murder.

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