Imphal, Oct. 22: Angry residents of Keirao and its neighbouring villages in Imphal East today torched the house of a suspected “rapist-murderer” after a search this morning failed to locate the person.
Hundreds of residents from five villages around Keirao set the empty house of Pukhram Momba Singh on fire this afternoon after dismantling a portion of it and destroying household articles.
Momba Singh, a resident of Keirao Bitra Mayai Leikai, is suspected to have raped and murdered his sister-in-law, 18-year-old Okram Tamphasana Devi on Tuesday.
Tamphasana Devi’s body, stripped to her lower garments, was recovered from a drain in Keirao area that morning. Police recovered a piece of cloth belonging to the victim and a blood-stained trouser of the accused from his house the same day.
Another mob lynched a suspect, Moirangthem Tiken, in the rape-cum-murder case of another woman, Sapam Memton Chanu, 35, this evening. Chanu’s body was found near Pukhao Khabam in Imphal East yesterday.
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