Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 08 2010:
Police today arrested a man as controversy arose when his wife, mother of two children was found hanged to death.
Thirty-two year old housewife, Soraisam ningol Naorem ongbi Modubala wife of S Budhabiraj was found hanged to death at her husband's house at Wangjing Hodam Leirak in Thoubal district in the morning, at about 6 am.
Controversy arose to the death of Modhubala when her parental family charged that family of husband killed her after torturing recalling earlier incidents.
They said that Modhubala stayed her parental house for sometime recently after she was tortured allegedly by the family but backed to her husband's house after negotiation.
Last night, drunken Budhabiraj allegedly turned Modhubala along with her two children out of her bedroom and closed the door and slept.
The whole night, she stayed outside the house with her children.
Today morning, at about 6 am, Budhabiraj wake up and opened the door of the house.
Taking advantage of the moment, Modhubala entered into the house and closed the door of the bedroom and failed to open the door despite repeated callings.
When the family member broke the door, she was found hanged to death inside the bedroom, they said.
Members of the parental family of Modhubala strongly charged that she was killed after torturing by her husband and family.
Later, police rounded up Budhabiraj as part of investigation into the case as per complaint lodged by the parental family.
The dead body of the woman has also been transferred at JNIMS morgue, Imphal for postmortem.