Indore

The newly-wed couple from Indore city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh had chosen Meghalaya for their honeymoon because they had heard it had "very beautiful valleys", Raja's brother Sachin Raghuvanshi told the BBC, the weekend before Sonam's arrest.

The couple had married on 11 May in Indore in a ceremony blessed by both their families.

"One person was picked up from Uttar Pradesh and another two accused were apprehended from Indore. Sonam surrendered at the Nandganj police station and was subsequently arrested."

The court had then dismissed an appeal against a high court ruling that quashed criminal proceedings against Husain in the cities of Bhopal, Indore and Rajkot, condemning the rise of a "new puritanism" in India.

"After my child was born, I was unwilling to stay at Indore. I was unwilling because the nurses killed the female child that was born," Mumtaz Begum told the court.