A woman was found dead hanging on a tree today morning around 7:30 at Kwashiphai under Bishnupur Police Station.
The deceased has been identified as Hatneikim Zou (32) w/o Tungnung Josheph Zou (35) of Chothe Village Ward No. 12, Bishnupur District.
According to the husband, both the couple has been residing at their aunt’s place at Nungshai near Loukoipat for the last couple of months as helpers.
He also said that Hatneikim Zou was planning to go shopping with her cousin sister but cancelled being Sunday and instead she left for her residence of Chothe to meet her children. As she did not turn up till late night, locals searched the nearby areas but she was not found, he added.
Today morning locals found her body hanging from a tree with her sarong (phanek) which she had worn at the time when she left, between Kwashiphai and Chothe Village.
A team of Bishnupur Police recovered her body and was later put at RIMS morgue for postmortem to find the exact reason of her dead.
A case has also been registered as family members suspected that she was murdered.