Home Ministry wants speedy probe into murder

NEW DELHI/ NONGPOH: The Union Home Ministry has asked the Delhi police to thoroughly investigate the murder of the 26-year-old girl Wandalin Kongor from Ri Bhoi and make arrests immediately.
Information and Public Relations Minister AL Hek met Kiren Rijiju on Thursday and urged him to take prompt action. He was accompanied by Umsning MLA Jason Sawkmie Mawlong and relatives of Kongor.
Both the legislators met the grieving relatives and offered condolences to the family. They also assured help from the state government.
The postmortem was done on Thursday afternoon but the report will take time, police said. Kongor’s body could not be taken to Nongpoh as it was decomposed to the extent that her relatives could not recognise her face but identified her only from the nails.
The decomposed body, which was found in the bedroom of her rented apartment in south west Delhi, was buried at the Dwarka Christian Cemetery in the capital by the Khasi Jaintia Christian Fellowship and her relatives.
Simon Joseph, the principal of St. George School at Nongmynsong in Shillong and Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Delhi Police North East representative were with the relatives till the last rites were over.
The sub inspector of the North East Delhi Police and the Meghalaya police team were also present.
The police said prima facie it was murder as the face was partially disfigured. The postmortem report will confirm whether there was also any sexual assault on her. A murder case has been registered at Vasant Vihar police station.
The woman was an employee of a call centre in Gurgaon. She stayed in an apartment at Munirka in the capital with a man whom she introduced to the landlord as her relative. Police are looking for the man who is absconding.
Before shifting to Delhi a few months ago, Kongor worked in Hyderabad for about three years.
A few years ago, it was at Munirka where a 14-year-old Manipuri girl was raped by her landlord’s son. The incident had triggered sharp reactions among northeasterners in Delhi.
The obnoxious stench emanating from the apartment prompted the landlord, who stays in the same building, and a few neighbours to call up police around 10am on Tuesday. On arrival, the police team found the main door locked from outside and had to break it open.
The police found all her belongings intact and a blanket was found lying next to the body. A preliminary probe indicated that the body was lying in the flat for the past four or five days.
Police have recovered the woman’s mobile phone and are scanning it for call details. They are also questioning her friends and colleagues and examining the CCTV cameras installed in the neighbourhood.