Satyabhama's mom laments DGP's 'speculation'
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 13 2013 : Dismis-sing Director General of Police (DGP) y Joykumar's specula-tion that the murdered Ning- ombam Satyabhama Devi might have been in the early stages of pregnancy, the victim's mother Phajabi Devi (58) asserted that a few days before being killed her daughter had completed her menstrual cycle.

Pointing out that a girl/woman still in her menstrual cycle cannot be pregnant in any way, the distraught mo-ther asked the State police chief not to make uncorroborated statements as such wild guessing amounts to undermining one of the most sensitive cases at hand.

Suggesting that the case be handed over to the CBI to en-sure justice is delivered at the earliest possible, Phajabi said based on past records of investigation on similar cases by the police it would be futile to hope that the State force would be able to comprehensively probe the murder.

While speaking to The Sangai Express at her Kakwa Selungba Leikai residence, the mother also showed inner clothes of her victim daughter put up for drying at the back of the house after she took bath and washed the clothes to assert that Satyabhama was not pregnant at the time of her death.

Body of N Satyabhama laying

Exuding confidence that post mortem report would certainly confirm assertion of her daughter being not pregnant, she strongly regretted that the DGP's speculation tantamount to questioning satyabhama's moral characters on the basis that the de- ceased person would be unable to object the accusation.

Phajabi also criticised the manner in which her daughter's corpse was kept at the JNIMS mortuary without any clothes to cover the body.

Apart from the untimely demise shocking the entire family it was most horrific to find that Satyabhama was laying bare with the limbs dang- ling from the miniature platform, rued the mother.

Slamming incompetency of JNIMS authority for not conforming to prescribed norms of preventing a corpse from decomposing, Phajabi suggested that such avoidable negligence be not repeated in future for no relatives or family members of a victim would be coming to morgues in a jubilant mood.

It is sad that one of the largest medical centres in the State (JNIMS) seemingly appear to be deprived of even a cold storage facility to keep dead bodies in a proper way, the mother lamented while opining that it would have been much better if the body was allowed to rot in the open field, where Satyabhama was found.

It may be noted that body of Satyabhama, who was a Junior Research Fellow in Pathology Department, RIMS, was found abandoned at a canal in Bashikhong area on April 5 morning.

Reacting to the detention of three persons namely Toijam James of Thambalkhong Sabal leikai, Thoudam Jibon of Irlbung Machahal Mayai leikai and Kshetrimayum Biju of Irilbung Bazar, in connection with the killing of Satyabhama, the mother suggested that the police update both the victim's family and the general public on the progress of police investigation.

Expressing apprehension that the police might be unable to uncover the entire plot leading to her daughter's brutal murder with the assertion that many similar cases had been remaining inconclusive till date, Phajabi reiterated her demand for a CBI probe in the case.

If rape and murder of a medical student in Delhi could bring in CBI sleuths to probe the case why should the Government of Manipur be reluctant on roping in services of the CBI, she posed while asserting that all the culprits deserved stringent punitive action.