Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 07 2009:
Dead body of a 14-year old girl was found murder in a brutal manner with sharp weapon something like knife at Doltang village under Parbung police station in the interior Churachandpur district today.
The murdered girl was identified as Chingkholtin alias Kholtim daughter of Shuwanchingmuan of Doltang Paite village.
According to a report received here, the dead body of the girl with several cut marks of sharp weapons was found lying at a spot some half kilometer on the side of a road leading to the village this afternoon.
She had one cut mark at the neck, two at the head, two more each at the left hand and right hand palm.
Family discovered the dead body when they conducted a search after the little girl failed to return home this evening.
She left home alone in the afternoon to show up her parents who had left home in the morning for working at Jhhum field this morning.
Even though the place of occurrence lies within the jurisdiction of the Parbung police station, villagers reported to incident to the nearest police station Jiribam who reached the spot at around 4 pm.
The village located some 22 kilometer away on the south-west of the Jiribam police station.
However, family as well as family refused to conduct postmortem to the dead body even though they were convinced by the police on the need of conducting the same to know the cause of death and find clue behind the murder.
Later, the family and villagers performed funeral service of the deceased girls with Paite customary law.