Joshina's mom laments lack of probe progress
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 20 2013: Expressing serious resentment that inspite of days after her daughter was found dead mysteriously police investigation could not provide a clue regarding circumstances leading to the demise of the 18-year old Sanabam Joshina, her mother Roma Devi opined that as murder theory cannot be ruled out investigation need to be more thorough and expedited.

Speaking to The Sangai Express at their ancestral home in Singjamei Waikhom Leikai, Roma remembered her eldest child of three siblings as calm, composed and healthy, physically and mentally.

While not ruling out the possibility of Joshina committing suicide due to souring of romantic relationships, she also expressed strong suspicion that her daughter might have been murdered as she had two stab-like wounds on the abdomen.

Sanabam Joshina

It is said that Joshina's family left their Singjamei Waikhom Leikai house about four years back to live at Canchipur area where the parents run a grocery shop.

Joshina, who reportedly stayed at her uncle Sanabam Rojen's place at Kakwa Lamdaibung Leirak left the uncle's house at around 11.30 am of October 9 informing the guardians that she would be purchasing medicine.

However, at around noon the same day Joshina reached the ancestral home in her Dio scooter and parking the scooter there left on foot, Roma quoted one of Joshina's cousin sisters as saying.

As she failed to return either at the Kakwa or the Singjamei home at dusk, family elders thinking she might have eloped also lodged a complaint at Kakwa police station.

With the customary practice of formal intimation to the girl's family in case of elopement not materialising even after late evening the next day frantic searches began, said the mother adding that Joshina was eventually found dead at a bed on the first floor of the Sanabam family's ancestral home at around 6 pm.

Police also recovered a knife from near her corpse, informed Roma who said that in the first year of running the grocery shop the entire family used to live at Waikhom Leikai.

Tied up with the grocery shop task the family decided to stay at the shop from the second year onwards with Joshina preferring to stay with her uncle's family when she was in Class XI at TG higher Secondary School.

Informing that the ancestral home was locked up with the Joshina's father possessing the key, Roma said she is still perplexed on how her daughter entered into the house.

As part of the police investigation statements of Joshina's friends, including a few boys were recorded, said the mother who also confided that police are likely to provide some information about post mortem report tomorrow.