UPDATE JULY 25:

Tejwant Danjou appeared in a 琉璃神社 courtroom today. Read the story here.

By Cheryl Wierda

Charges have now been laid in connection to Sunday鈥檚 murder in West 琉璃神社.

Court records indicate that Tejwant Danjou, 69, has been charged with second degree murder.

The name of his alleged victim is Rama Gauravarapu.

Police were called to a hotel in the 3400-block of Carrington Road in West 琉璃神社 shortly after 7:15 p.m. on Sunday after a report of a woman in need of assistance.

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鈥淥n attendance, police located a deceased woman. A man was arrested a short distance from the hotel and is in police custody,鈥� said Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau, in a press release.

鈥淚t is believed that the man and woman were known to each other and are from the Lower Mainland.鈥�

The Southeast District Major Crime Unit have taken conduct of the investigation and no further information is available at this time.

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