Thoubal arson
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 10 2014:
Furniture and other household items of one Keisham Nonglen Meitei, 45, s/o K Kanto Singh of Wabagai Mayai Leikai were set ablaze by unidentified person/s during the family's absence yesterday.
According to family members, the family had gone to watch a drama which was staged some 500 metres from their home at Wabagai Mayai Leikai Heibong Makhong Lampak after carefully locking their house.
On returning, at around 9.20 pm, the family saw flames inside the house through the window.
Immediately when the door opened, the family saw two beds, clothes and one Almirah including all the items inside, burnt to ashes.
The family alleged that a sum of Rs 1000 has also been stolen from the house.
The unidentified assailant is believed to have entered through the back door of the house by drilling a hole through the wood.
The fire, the family added, might have been kindled by pouring keresone over the furniture from the two lanterns which were left burning inside the house.
The assailant also left the gas stove opened before leaving the house, they added.
A case has been registered at Kakching police station.