From Our Correspondent
JOWAI: A lynch mob allegedly killed three people at Umkyrpong village after they were suspected them to be Menshohnoh or keepers of U Thlen, believed to be a serpent that thrives on human blood.
Sources informed, that all three victims were killed on October 30 and their bodies were dumped somewhere inside a jungle called Mooladiang.
One of the victims was identified as Nimon Paslein of Umkyrpong village. The other two could not be identified, however, sources informed that one was a Mizo and the other a Pnar from Barato village.
Reliable sources informed that the body of Paslein was later handed over to his sister after she requested the concerned Rangbah shnong of the area. On the permission of the headman, the body of Paslein was pulled out and the last rites were performed on November 13 and he was buried at a cemetery in the village, sources informed.
Sources also informed, that the sister had gone to Saipung Police Station to file an FIR but the police told her that she should keep quiet since she had got the body of her brother.
Sources also informed that the bodies of the other two were still inside the forest. The sister of Paslein also did not lodge any complaint as she has been threatened by some villagers including the headman. Sources said, “Siio Paslein, the sister of Nimon Paslein, knew the place since she had gone there to pull out his body”.
Siio Paslien did not even want to talk to this scribe as she is paranoid. “Don’t ask me about the incident. I don’t know anything,” she murmured in a confused manner.
Later, she (Siio) again called up another source from whom this scribe had got her phone number and narrated the incident to him and also about the scribe who had made a call to her.