IMPHAL, July 15: A newly-wed housewife was found dead hanging in her living room at Kakmayai Mamang Leikai under Yairipok Police Station in Thoubal district today around 2 pm.
The deceased has been identified as Konthoujam ongbi Devala Devi, 20 wife of K Amarjit, 18 son of K Khamba Singh of Kakmayai Mamang Leikai Satjal.
Devala who hails from Huikap married Amarjit on April 27, 2014.
According to the husband`™s father Khamba, Devala was with two of her sister-in-laws at the time when he and Amarjit who both are tractor drivers were performing agricultural activities in their farmland.
When Amarjit returned home after the work at around 2 pm, he found the door of their living room closed, Khamba said.
After his wife failed to response to his call, he broke the door and found Devala hanging from the beam of the living room using a cloth, the father narrated.
He said that there had been no argument or fight between Amarjit and Devala so far as both of them shared a good rapport in the family.
On receiving the news, a team of police led by SDPO Yairipok along with a Sub-Magistrate arrived and conducted inquest. The dead body was pulled down in the presence of family members of the deceased; member of Wangkhem Zilla Parishad Kh Sobha; ex-Pradhan of Leirongthel Ningel Gram Panchayat M Ingocha and locals.
The body has been kept at JNIMS morgue for post mortem examination.
Though a large number of people from the locality of the deceased rushed to the residence on hearing about the death, there is no news of any untoward incident following the incident.
No one has been pulled up and interrogated by police in connection with the incident till the time of filing this report.