Love affair turned bitter?
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 06 2013 :
Ningom-bam Satyabhama who was a JRF under DBT Project of RIMS Pathology Department had a lengthy talk over mobile phone in a secretive manner with someone at the foot of a staircase near Community Me-dicine department at about 1.45 pm of April 2 .
Sources informed that police investigators have already traced the mobile phone number to whom Satyabhama had contacted on the fateful day.
Usually, Satybhama came to her office wearing salwar but she wore a red phanek when she came to RIMS on April 2 .
Because she was wearing phanek, Satyabhama called out a colleague and said that she would enter the office.
She met with a friend/colleague at the foot of the same staircase.
Satyabhama told her friend that a lump had been detected in her breast and that she was going to Guwahati for treatment because of which she would not be able to attend office for about a month.
Satyabhama also took Rs 3000 from the friend.
Some other friends saw Satyabhama heading for her home near Imo Filling Station, Singjamei with agony writ large on her face that sa-me evening.
Even as Satyabhama disclosed to some of her colleagues/friends that she had a boy friend, she never brought the man to her office in spite of her friends' insistence to bring him in.
As such, none of the fellow staff knew Satyabhama's boy friend.
It is possible that the red phanek Satyabhama wore when she met her friend at the foot of the staircase on April 2 was the same phanek she wore when she was found dead.
According to what she confided to some of her colleagues, Satyabhama's boy friend was a contractor by profession.
It is also possible that the man was engaged in contract works in RIMS in the form of sub-contract.
Expressing strong suspicion that love affair turned bitter might be the main reason for the gruesome murder, the sources informed that police have been utilising all their resources to nab the killer(s) .
In the course of the police investigation, statements of Satyabhama's colleagues have been taken.