IMPHAL, July 15: A newly-wed housewife was found dead hanging in her living room at Kakmayai Mamang Leikai under Yairipok Police Station in Thoubal district today around 2 pm.<\/p>\n
The deceased has been identified as Konthoujam ongbi Devala Devi, 20 wife of K Amarjit, 18 son of K Khamba Singh of Kakmayai Mamang Leikai Satjal.<\/p>\n
Devala who hails from Huikap married Amarjit on April 27, 2014.<\/p>\n
According to the husband`\u2122s father Khamba, Devala was with two of her sister-in-laws at the time when he and Amarjit who both are tractor drivers were performing agricultural activities in their farmland.<\/p>\n
When Amarjit returned home after the work at around 2 pm, he found the door of their living room closed, Khamba said.<\/p>\n
After his wife failed to response to his call, he broke the door and found Devala hanging from the beam of the living room using a cloth, the father narrated.<\/p>\n
He said that there had been no argument or fight between Amarjit and Devala so far as both of them shared a good rapport in the family.<\/p>\n
On receiving the news, a team of police led by SDPO Yairipok along with a Sub-Magistrate arrived and conducted inquest. The dead body was pulled down in the presence of family members of the deceased; member of Wangkhem Zilla Parishad Kh Sobha; ex-Pradhan of Leirongthel Ningel Gram Panchayat M Ingocha and locals.<\/p>\n
The body has been kept at JNIMS morgue for post mortem examination.<\/p>\n
Though a large number of people from the locality of the deceased rushed to the residence on hearing about the death, there is no news of any untoward incident following the incident.<\/p>\n
No one has been pulled up and interrogated by police in connection with the incident till the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n\n