Missing Manipuri, youth L. Poumai was found hanging from a tree of a senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer’s quarters near the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar, .
L. Poumai from Khabung Karong in Senapati District of Manipur went missing while travelling from Dimapur to * Bangalore, by train.
Poumai’s elder brother informed that his brother had last contacted him over phone from the running train at about 4.55 pm on November 29 and had informed that around five persons were threatening him. The train reached Bangalore on 30 November but he was found missing.
On December 2, a local woman revealed that on the intervening night they had heard yelling and wailing of a youth and hurling of abuses by a gang of ruffians and a Scorpio car was found parked there.
According to eyewitnesses, the youth was hanging from a guava tree in the backyard of an OAS officer Arunanchal Dash’s quarter No GR 63.
Some local boys while playing cricket in the nearby playground had first discovered the body. They soon informed the police.
Capital Police Station IIC had reached the spot and recovered the body. The body was sent to the Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar for post-mortem.