Claim
The government's lawyers are arguing in the Supreme Court that the police documents contained merely a small typing error.
“सोचिए सरकारी वकील सुप्रीम कोर्ट में दलील दे रहे हैं कि पुलिस ने कागजों में सिर्फ एक छोटी सी टाइपिंग की गलती हो गई थी।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The claim refers to the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case. Sonam Raghuvanshi was granted bail partly because arrest documents cited BNS Section 403 instead of Section 103 (murder). The Meghalaya government challenged this in the Supreme Court, where Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued the discrepancy was merely a typographical/typing error and bail should not have been granted on that ground. This matches Anjana Om Kashyap's statement that government lawyers argued in the Supreme Court that the police documents contained merely a small typing error. The framing is faithful to the actual argument; the only minor imprecision is that the error was in one document (the arrest memo), not all police papers.
Evidence
- https://www.timesnowhindi.com/india/raja-raghuvanshi-murder-case-meghalaya-government-moves-supreme-court-against-sonam-bail-article-154868660 Reports Solicitor General Tushar Mehta arguing for the Meghalaya government in the SC that the arrest memo merely had a typing error (IPC/BNS Section 103 written as 403) and bail should not rest on it. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://lawbeat.in/top-stories/breaking-supreme-court-issues-notice-in-meghalaya-govts-challenge-to-sonam-raghuvanshi-bail-1608554 Confirms SG Tushar Mehta told the bench (Justices MM Sundresh and Sheel Nagu) the lower courts granted Sonam Raghuvanshi bail because of an error in arrest papers, arguing the mistake was only typographical — wrong BNS section cited. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.indiatvnews.com/north-east/meghalaya/meghalaya-govt-moves-supreme-court-against-sonams-bail-in-raja-raghuvanshi-murder-case-2026-07-02-1046874 Confirms Meghalaya government moved the Supreme Court on July 2, 2026 against Sonam's bail, which the trial court had granted over a document citing 'Section 403 BNS' instead of the murder provision 'Section 103 BNS'. ✓ reachable · archived