A police crew investigating the homicide of Raja Raghuvanshi, an Indore man killed whereas on his honeymoon in Meghalaya, has arrested a property vendor from Indore in reference to allegedly concealing proof, and detained a safety guard for questioning.
With this, the whole variety of individuals arrested in reference to the homicide stands at six, together with his spouse Sonam and the person she was allegedly in a relationship with, Raj Kushwaha, in addition to the three assailants who allegedly carried out the killing in Meghalaya’s Sohra.
Property vendor Silome James was arrested by a Meghalaya Police crew on Saturday. The subsequent day, police detained the safety guard of the condominium that Sonam Raghuvanshi allegedly stayed at in Indore after the crime.
“A crew from the Crime Department is in fixed communication with the Meghalaya Police and it has been communicated that Silome James has been arrested on the premise of proof,” Extra DCP of the Indore police Crime Department, Rajesh Dandotiya, instructed reporters in Indore.
James has been held for allegedly concealing objects and proof for Sonam Raghuvanshi.
“He’s a property vendor and lessee of a constructing at Heera Bagh Colony in Indore, the place Sonam had stayed and saved the jewelry and different objects she took along with her after the incident,” mentioned East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem. The safety guard was additionally posted on the similar constructing.
Sonam, Raj Kushwaha, and the three alleged assailants arrested earlier this month are in judicial custody in Meghalaya whereas the case is presently being investigated by an SIT shaped by the Meghalaya Police.
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Raja had been murdered on the Wei Sawdong falls in Sohra on Could 23 whereas on honeymoon with Sonam. Each of them had been reported lacking, and a large search operation had been launched. It was a homicide investigation when Raja’s physique was present in a gorge on June 2, and the case took a twist when the lacking Sonam surfaced in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur on June 7.