Gruesome murder of Jiribam woman: autopsy reveals torture and rape allegations

Guwahati: The autopsy findings of the 31-year-old mother of three, who was killed by armed intruders at her village home in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Thursday, have revealed that the assailants subjected her to ‘third degree’ torture and ‘burns’ while she she was still alive, which together caused her death.
Based on the FIR filed by the woman’s husband, Jiribam police also registered a case of rape, but doctors from the forensic medicine department of Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Assam, who conducted the autopsy, could not obtain a “vaginal swab” gather to determine whether there was a violation, as “the body parts were completely charred and unrecognizable.”
The man stated in the FIR that his wife was “brutally murdered” after she was sexually assaulted at “our residence” in Zairawn village, echoing the horrors of the first few weeks of last year’s ethnic conflict marked by gangs chased, stripped and raped women, came back to life. in various places in the residual state.
The doctors were also unable to collect intestines for chemical analysis because “most were charred, unrecognizable or missing.”

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