Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 23 2010:
Villagers torched houses of two suspects in the in the murder of a woman after a possible gang rape in Churachandpur's Thingkangphai Yai-phakol village on December 13 .
Reports said that ZRA cadres today took away three men, Ibomcha (28) s/o Jiten, Ch Inao alias Golao (38) s/o Ch Ibocha and W Tomba s/o Angou, all from Yaiphakol village this afternoon around 2 pm.
They were later handed over to Churachandpur Police Station at 5.30 pm.
Irate villagers torched the houses of two of the suspects, Ibomcha and Ch Inao.
Mention may be made that a nude dead body of a woman bearing many bruise marks of torture and signs of possible rape was retrieved by Churachandpur police from a paddy field at Thingkangphai Yaiphakol area on December 13 last.
The identity of the woman was later established as Hatcholing (56) wife of Senjamang of Gangpijang village on December 18 .