Imphal, November 14 2009: Against the backdrop of rumour milling over the rampant human organs racket in Nagaland, a Manipuri man identified as Laishram Raghumani (65), who is also the secretary of Nambol Block Congress Committee, has been reportedly missing at Dimapur on October 23 .

According to a missing report filed with the Nambol Police Station on October 26, Laishram Raghumani, son of L Dhananjoy of Nambol Makha Leikai left his home on October 23 morning for Guwahati's Downtown Hospital Nursing Institute to meet his daughter who is presently a trainee nurse at the institute.

Family members had last contacted him through his mobile phone (9615126776) around 7.30 pm of October 23 .

He informed his family that he will board the 10pm train to Guwahati from Dimapur as he missed the 4pm train.

A day later, on October 25 around 5pm, it was confirmed form his daughter at Downtown Hospital's Nursing Institute that he had not reached the place.

His whereabouts has been not known since then.

Meanwhile, source from Dimapur said, L Raghumani was last seen with a group of people including three-Manipuri looking youths, an old non-Manipuri man, and a Manipuri-Muslim looking woman at Bano Hotel in Dimapur around 7pm of October 23.The Manipuri youths and their accomplices were said to be from Silchar and Guwahati.

Raghumani was reportedly convinced by the group of people to board the night's train to Guwahati at 10.30 together on the pretext that the earlier train schedule has been cancelled.

They were seen leaving the Hotel after dining at the hotel together till they reached the foot of an over bridge at Dimapur around 7pm.The report gains significance in the wake of a report of a dead body of a male non-local, aged around 40, being found inside a gunny bag near an Oil Pump at Piphema, Kohima on November 6 last.

The dead body was found without the eyes and the belly being slit.

In another apparent case of organ racket, a youth was reportedly abducted by some unknown miscreants from Teen Mile in Dimapur on November 9 .

Meanwhile, a Dimapur-based newspaper had carried a news report over the rumours of organ racket being on the rampage in Nagaland on November 5 .

It reported that anxious villagers of Nagaland have been keeping vigil against the 'criminals' in their respective jurisdictions.

Rumours have been doing the round in areas adjoining Chumukemedia and Seithekema villages and beyond in Nagaland since the past one month or so that a gang of criminals has been operating in the area.

The gang of criminals has been said preying on human organs like kidneys and eyes.

The gossips have it that surgeons were among the gang.

Unguarded and vulnerable people were said to be the target.

The newspaper reported that alerted residents had thrashed a man on suspicious ground that he may be a member of the gang on October 31 after pulling him up from Kuki Dolong side near Dimapur.

Police later confirmed him to be a man waiting for a homeward trip to Manipur.

The joint council of four villages of Seithekema villages is reported to have passed a resolution restricting the random roaming of villagers or outsiders in the area from 6pm. Quoting police sources, the report added that no case/report of such sorts has been received by police stations in Nagaland.

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