Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 03 2010:
An electrician engaged in electric fitting at Jawar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Tamenglong was apparently killed by savages after they had brutally tortured him.
Police retrieved the dead body from a gorge, five kilometers on the west of Tamenglong police station.
The deceased electrician was identified as Takhelmayum Surchandra (49) son of Ibotombi of Soibam Leikai Ahongei Leirak.
His whereabouts remained untraceable since he was reportedly kidnapped from the labourers' camp inside the JNV campus where he has staying with other labourers on the evening of September 28, said family members.
He left for Tamenglong with six other persons on September 26 to do electrical fittings at the newly constructed quarters of the Tamenglong JNV at Kouprama village.
He had been missing from the camp since the afternoon of September 28 when the other labourers, had gone out for marketing.
His family was informed by his colleagues after he failed to come back to the camp.
Attempts to find him, were hampered by heavy continuous rainfall for one week, family members said.
Some family members went to Tamenglong and conducted a search with the help villagers on Friday and Saturday.
In the search they found the shirt, trouser and hawai chapple, he had worn near a gorge downhill of the village.
The search finally ended when the dead body was found near a bush with severe bruise marks all over the body, mostly at the legs and the back of the head.
Police as well as family as yet do not know the motive behind the killing of the electrician who is survived by his wife and three children �one daughter and two sons.
Police brought back the dead body to Imphal and after postmortem at JNIMS hospital it was handed over to the family.