Guwahati: The autopsy findings of the 31-year-old mother of three children, who was killed in her village home in Manipur’s Jiribam district Thursday by armed intruders, have revealed that assailants subjected her to “third degree” torture and “burns” while she was still alive which together caused her death.
Based on the FIR lodged by the woman’s husband, Jiribam Police registered a case of rape, too, but doctors of forensic medicine department of Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Assam, who conducted the post mortem, could not collect “vaginal smear” to find out whether any violation was committed as “the body parts were completely charred and not recognizable.”
The husband stated in the FIR that his wife was “brutally murdered” after being sexually assaulted at “our residence” in Zairawn village, reviving the horrors of the first few weeks of the ethnic conflict last year marked by mobs hounding, stripping and raping women at several places in the restive state.
The doctors also could not collect visceras for chemical analysis as “most were charred and unrecognizable or missing”.