Imphal, February 01 2010: A team of Manipur Human Rights Commission today conducted spot enquiry into the rape and subsequent murdered of mother and her teenage daughter at Phayeng in Imphal west district today.

The Commission which is conducting inquiry into the case has also asked the Lamshang police to furnish a report of police investigation into the same incident.

The spot inquiry conducted by the MHRC team led by Ng Nongyai was also participated by OC of the Lamshang Police Sstation, Joykumar and member of the Child Welfare Committee Imphal East, Keisham Pradipkumar.

The team first visited the three orphaned children left by Chanbi who are now living at house of the parental home of the decease under the care of their grand father Angom Amuthoi at Phayeng Nungpalching Leikai and inquired after their condition after their mother left them.

The three orphan children, Sarika (13), Dingku (10) and Rita are living in the house of their grant father at present.

The MHRC member inquired of the grandpa whether he would be able to look after the children and take care of their future life or whether he wants to hand over the responsibility of the adopting the children to the appropriate authority.

In reply to the question, the aged old man firmly said that he want to raise up the children under his care.

He also informed that they will be sent to appear in the final exams which is starting from Wednesday (February).

The three children are studying at Don Bosco High School, Phayeng.

They are preparing for the exams, he further informed.

However, Amuthoi expressed dissatisfaction with the police for not nabbing the culprits till date.

Consoling the grand father, Ng Nongyai termed the incident as unfortunate and assured appropriate action with the completion of inquiry at the earliest.

Nongyai asked the OC, Lamshang to speed up the police investigation and submit the charge-sheet to the court so that culprits are punished as per law.

He also appealed to the family and relatives of the deceases to cooperate with the police investigation.

The team also visited the house of Chanbi where members of the All Manipur Meetei Christian Forum were already there.

They pleaded the commission to take up appropriate action so that such "heinous" crimes do not recur.

While giving his comment on the case, Ng Nongyai citing postmortem report observed that the mother and daughter was suspected of being killed by throttling their necks after rape.