Overview
- Preliminary autopsy observations note at least two stab wounds, including a chest injury that punctured the lungs, likely rendering the victim unconscious before her throat was cut.
- Investigators registered a murder case under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and say the sequence is still being established, including whether it was a murder-suicide.
- The injured partner, identified as Thangjam Viney Meitei, remains in critical condition on ventilator support at AIIMS Trauma Centre.
- Police say the victim, Thempi Khongsai, phoned her father during a quarrel and said she was being attacked with a knife, prompting the landlady’s daughter to call the police.
- Officers forced entry to a room and bathroom locked from the inside and found both with neck wounds, recovering a knife, while relatives reported frequent fights in the couple’s three-year live-in relationship and no marriage documents were found.