SHILLONG: The mystery surrounding the death of 25-year-old Clara Bansharai Khongsit will be clear after the postmortem report, said Kolkata police on Thursday.
Officers at Baguiati police station in Kolkata said they would receive the report after two to three days after which they can ascertain whether her death was suicide or murder.
The police said two of Clara’s friends, Evalyne Leen Nongrum and Suraj Sutodiya, who were detained for questioning, were released. “We will call them again, if we need,” police officers said.
In Shillong, Clara’s relatives were in doubts about how far the investigation in Kolkata would go as the information about her death was “sketchy”.
They are still in the dark about how she fell to death from a three-storey building.
The young flight attendant was found lying in a pool of blood on the road in front of an apartment at Kestopur near Dum Dum airport in north Kolkata on Wednesday morning.
Her body was brought to her Lumparing home here on Thursday evening.
Earlier in the day, Leo Khongsit, Clara’s uncle, said when asked whether the family suspected foul play, “We cannot say as the details are sketchy. Everything will become clear when they (the mother and the brother who went to Kolkata) return this evening with the body and we get to talk to them.”
“It is not very clear to us as to how the incident happened. All we know is only what has come out in the news. So whether the Kolkata Police will continue with the investigation or not, that also we are not very certain. We don’t really know,” he added.
Leo said the family would proceed on the basis of the postmortem report.
Clara, who was remembered by her relatives as a good-natured and lively girl, visited her family in Shillong earlier this month but stayed for two days. “She did not have a fixed schedule or know when she was supposed to come home,” said Leo, adding, “Her death is a shock. She is irreplaceable.”
According to media reports, her friends, one of whom is a flight attendant at SpiceJet, were unaware of the tragedy till they were woken up by a police team the next day.
Clara, who worked with IndiGo, had partied with Evalyne and Suraj in a nightclub on Park Street to celebrate the former’s birthday. Tuesday was Clara’s weekly day-off.
The trio had returned a few hours before the tragedy. But Clara’s friends were unable to specify the time, Kolkata police said.
Evalyne and Clara had been friends since they met during training for flight attendants.
