A press meet was held at DESAM head office, Keishampat in connection with the death of a class ten student at his school boarding. The deceased has been identified as Sanasam Deyabi Singh (16) s/o of S. Jiten singh of Wangoo Mamang Sabal.
During the press meet victim’s mother S. Sumila Devi said that, her son was studying since class seven at Grace English school, Uajn Tarapur of Cachar District of Assam.
She further said that on 20th of May they got a message at her husband’s phone from an unknown number, however the message received was read on May 21 morning due to the dead of cell phone. The message read “dad called to madam”. When they called to the school principal Jacop’s wife Grace Hamid to speak with her son however Grace Hamid reply that her son was studying so could not talk with him. But when they called again the wife of the principal never receive the call.
She added that on May 22 morning at around 10 am their relative inform that her son was hospitalized after he falls at pond of a school. When they contacted the school principal’s wife, they come to know that her son was dead. Later on the evening without any permission from family, the school authority conducted post mortem.
During the press meet general secretary of DESAM, P.Premchandra demanded to post mortem the corpse at Imphal once again, and urged the government to investigate the incident.
He further added that if the government fails to fulfill the demand than DESAM along with people will organized a mass agitation.