Meghalaya Police arrests two individuals in MP in reference to Raja Raghuvanshi homicide case

With the recent apprehensions, the entire variety of individuals arrested within the case rose to seven.

The SIT on Saturday evening arrested a property vendor for concealing a field belonging to Raghuvanshi’s spouse Sonam, who hid it in a flat in Indore after the homicide final month.

“Meghalaya Police SIT arrested one Silome James from Bhonrasa toll-gate in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh while he was trying to flee to Bhopal around 7.30 pm on Saturday. He is a property dealer and lessee of a building at Heera Bagh Colony in Indore where Sonam had stayed and kept the jewellery and other items she took with her after the incident,” East Khasi Hills district SP Vivek Syiem informed PTI.

Later, the SIT nabbed a safety guard, recognized as Balla Ahirwar, from his native village in Ashok Nagar district of Madhya Pradesh round 2 am on Sunday. He was posted on the property.

The two shall be produced earlier than a courtroom in Indore, looking for a transit remand for being taken to Shillong for additional investigation, he added.

The field is believed to have contained key proof linked to the homicide, in accordance with sources.

The arrested property vendor led the SIT to the place the place he had disposed of all of the objects of the field by burning, the officer mentioned.

A member of the SIT mentioned that Sonam’s boyfriend Raj Kushwaha owned a firearm and this was saved on the property together with jewelry and a laptop computer.

At the location the place James had burnt the field, there have been no indicators of the pistol, laptop computer or any of the jewelry belonging to Raja, he mentioned, including {that a} forensic group had additionally visited the spot and picked up all out there proof.

The flat was rented out to homicide co-accused Vishal Chauhan by James, who runs a property administration agency in Indore, they mentioned.

On June 13, James informed reporters that Chauhan approached him on May 30 and rented the flat for ₹17,000 monthly, signing a proper settlement.

However, when the Meghalaya Police later searched the flat, it was discovered vacant, as per the sources.

Sonam stayed within the flat for a number of days on return from Meghalaya, earlier than ultimately surrendering to police in UP on June 8, the sources mentioned.

Indore-based transport businessman Raghuvanshi married Sonam on May 11 in Indore and the couple left for his or her honeymoon in Meghalaya on May 20.

Raghuvanshi went lacking on May 23 and his mutilated physique was recovered on June 2 from a deep gorge close to a waterfall within the Sohra space of East Khasi Hills district.

Raja was hacked to loss of life by three males utilizing two machetes close to a secluded parking zone near the well-known Weisawdong falls in Sohra on May 23, the day the couple was reported lacking.

Sonam, accused of conspiring together with her alleged lover to kill her husband, surrendered on June 8 earlier than the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district, whereas 4 different accused have been arrested from totally different places in MP and UP.

The Meghalaya Police had earlier arrested 5 individuals in reference to the homicide Sonam, her alleged lover Raj Kushwaha and the latter’s three pals Vishal Chauhan, Akash Rajput and Anand Kurmi.

The 5 are presently in judicial custody and lodged at a jail in Meghalaya.

The case is being probed intimately by the SIT of Meghalaya Police.

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