Observance on violence against women : Mom found dead amid contrasting claims
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 09 2012:
A 19-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself to death yesterday.
However, family of her parental home claimed that the mother of a child was hung after she was murdered.
The woman has been identified as Thounaojam Ongbi Yumnam Ningol Thoithoi w/o Thounaojam Ojit (20) of Kakyai Mayai Leikai.
According to the family of Thoithoi's parental home, they got the news of their daughter's death from her marital family at around 11.30 am yesterday.
When they reached the house of Thoithoi's husband at around noon, she was found hung with a khudei (male loin cloth) .
Thoithoi's husband Ojit surrendered before Nambol Police Station before the family of her parental home reached her husband's house, they claimed.
Even as police have deposited the corpse at RIMS morgue for post mortem examination, Thoithoi's parental family have brought home the six-month old baby of their daughter.
They also lodged a complaint at Nambol Police Station regarding the incident.
According to the family of Thoithoi's parental home, their daughter frequently came to their house at Haoreibi Awang Leikai before her death.
Thoithoi and Ojit entered wedlock around one and half years back, they said, Thoithoi was complaining about having frequent altercation with her husband as he did not earn anything.