Overview

• Sonam is lodged near the jail warden’s office and shares a cell with two under-trial women inmates under round-the-clock CCTV surveillance.
• Prison sources say she wakes promptly each morning and follows the jail manual without discussing her crime or personal life.
• No relatives have visited or called her despite prison rules permitting contact and the victim’s brother alleges covert communications that her immediate family denies.
• The joint SIT, spanning Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, has arrested eight suspects including her alleged lover.
• Officials plan to offer her sewing and other skill-development programs even though no formal work assignments have been made yet.