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June, 2025: The Meghalaya Police's Special Investigation Team has arrested two additional suspects Silome James and Balvir Ahirwar in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly assisting Sonam Raghuvanshi following the murder of her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to seven. She hid jewellery, laptop with the help of James in a box, which was later found destroyed.
Who are the two accused arrested in Honeymoon murder case?
James, a property dealer, was apprehended on Saturday evening as he attempted to flee the Bhonrasa toll gate in the Dewas district for Bhopal. "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," said East Khasi Hills district SP Vivek Syiem, according to News Agency. He assisted Sonam in concealing a box containing jewelry, a laptop, and possibly a weapon that belonged to her alleged boyfriend Raj Kushwaha. The box was later annihilated, police sources said.
An SIT officer stated, "The property dealer led the SIT to the place where he had disposed of all the items of the box by burning," stating that the pistol, jewelry, or laptop were not found. On June 13, the officer told reporters that James paid Vishal Chauhan, a co-accused, 17,000 yen per month to rent the apartment. On Sunday, police arrested Ahirwar, a watchman and carpenter from his home village in the Ashok Nagar district, as another suspect. He was reportedly employed at the Indore flat where Sonam and a key accused in the murder had stayed after escaping Meghalaya.
“Shillong police came to Shadora today. They took a person named Balvir Ahirwar with them to Indore for questioning. Ashoknagar SP Vineet Kumar Jain stated, "The flat in which Sonam Raghuvanshi stayed after the murder, according to the preliminary investigation, Balvir Ahirwar was working there as a watchman and a carpenter." Both appeared before an Indore court and remanded in the transit custody of Meghalaya Police for seven days, according to Additional DCP Rajesh Dandotiya.
On May 23 during his honeymoon trip, Raja Raghuvanshi was brutally hacked to death near Weisawdong Falls in Sohra. His mutilated body was found on June 2. The murder was allegedly planned by his wife, Sonam, and her lover, Raj Kushwaha, who are among the five accused already in judicial custody in Meghalaya.