Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 15 2010:
A 50 year-old widow committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree at Keibi Khullen in Imphal east.
She has beenidentified as Thangjam Mema wife of late Birchand of Keibi Makha Leikai.
Family members said thats he was missing since November 10 after she went out early in the morning.
Her eldest son with his cousin who went at about 3 pm to their estate at the foothill at Keibi Khullen found her hanging by a cloth on a banyan tree near the estate.
When the son with his cousin went to the estate, they discovered gifts presented to the deceased on Chakouba by her parental family inside the estate.
Suspicious of her mother being somewhere , they conducted a search and found her hanging from a branch of the banyan tree, they added.
Family members brought back the dead body from and performed her last rites without informing the police, reports said.