Police have recovered a country-made pistol from a drain in Indore after interrogating property broker Shilom James and flat owner Lokendra Singh Tomar in the Raja Raghuwanshi murder case.

Sonam and the other accused in the case had confessed during interrogation that they had also brought a pistol as an alternative plan to kill Raja. Meghalaya police is presently looking for more evidence in the case in Indore.

Tomar is the owner of the flat where Sonam stayed before she surfaced in Ghazipur.

Earlier, Indore police arrested a property dealer, Shilom James in the honeymoon murder case for tampering with evidence.

According to police, Shilom allegedly disposed of a black bag belonging to the main murder accused, Sonam Raghuvanshi. The bag contained Rs 5 lakh in cash, her jewellery, a country-made pistol and her clothes – all items were linked to the probe.

During the course of the investigation, one of the arrested accused — Vishal alias Vicky Chauhan, a hitman allegedly hired by Sonam to kill her husband Raja Raghuvanshi — revealed that he had booked an online auto from his Indore residence to Sonam’s hideout in the same city with a black bag containing her clothes, jewellery, Rs 5 lakh in cash, and a pistol.

Subsequently, the police raided the flat in Heerabag. But, the bag was still missing.

After checking nearby CCTV footage, the police identified James carrying a black bag from the flat and putting it inside a car.

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