SHILLONG: As many as 39 persons were quizzed in connection with the mysterious death of the 16-year-old girl from Umlyngka in Upper Shillong but police are yet to piece together the incident even after four months.
The girl went missing from her house at Umlyngka on July 24 and later her body was recovered from Damsite, Umiam, on July 29.
The family had earlier claimed that she came out of the house after receiving a phone call.
The cause of her death is yet to be ascertained since the post-mortem report was inconclusive and the FSL report from Hyderabad is still awaited.
39 persons, both male and female friends of the victim who were part of the WhatsApp group, were quizzed, City SP Vivek Syiem said.
There are many others who are yet to be questioned before the completion of the probe as the WhatsApp group had around hundred members.
The difficulty in getting all the persons for interrogation is that their profiles in the WhatsApp do not match with their real names.
Police are looking at what happened on July 24 at her residence, the subsequent missing incident and the recovery of her body at Umiam on July 29.
A few days after the incident, the victim’s slippers were found intact near Umtong waterfalls, not far from Umlyngka.
The victim’s mobile phone was recovered by a 19-year-old boy from Umtong a few weeks later adding a new twist to the case.
