The Meghalaya Police has arrested a property businessman from Indore on charges of hiding evidence of the famous King Raghuvanshi murder case. A local police officer gave this information on Sunday.
Indore Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotia told ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “Meghalaya Police has arrested Indore’s property businessman Shilom James for hiding the evidence of King Raghuvanshi murder.”
Police sources said James is accused of disappearing the bag of Sonam, the main accused in the murder and the wife of Raja Raghuvanshi, which she hid in a flat in Dewas Naka area of the city after the incident.
According to sources, this bag had “important evidence” related to the murder.
Sources said that the flat in which the bag was hidden in the city, James had rented Vishal Chauhan, one of the five arrested accused in the murder.
James operates a firm of property management in Indore. On June 13, he himself came in front of the media and claimed that Chauhan met him on May 30 and rented a flat in the city’s Dewas Naka area at Rs 17,000 per month and Chauhan had signed the contract for this.
Sources said that when the Meghalaya police reached this flat in search of evidence, it was found empty.
According to sources, Sonam, who returned to her hometown Indore from Meghalaya after Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, was hiding in this flat for several days.
He said that later Sonam reached Uttar Pradesh by a taxi from Indore and surrendered in front of the police in Ghazipur district late on June 8.
Apart from his wife Sonam, his wife Sonam and three friends of Kushwaha and Kushwaha’s three friends-Shayal Chauhan, Akash Rajput and Anand Kurmi were arrested on May 23 for the honeymoon of Honeymoon in Meghalaya.
At present, the five accused are lodged under judicial custody in a jail in Meghalaya.
King Raghuvanshi, during a honeymoon in Meghalaya, went missing on May 23 and his mutilated body was found on June 2 in a deep moat near a waterfall in the Sohra area of East Khasi Hills district (also known as Cherrapunji).
King Raghuvanshi’s family is associated with transport business. He was married to Sonam on 11 May in Indore and he left for Meghalaya for a honeymoon on 20 May.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Meghalaya Police is investigating the case of murder of Raja Raghuvanshi in detail.
