Dima Hasao youth's body discovered 4 days after he went missing

HAFLONG: The body of a 20-year-old boy was found today, four days after he mysteriously went missing from his native village.

The youth has been identified as Chiranjit Kemprai of Samparidisa village in Gunjung area under Haflong Police station in Dima Hasao district.

On June 5, the day when Chiranjit went missing, he had arrived at his home from Haflong market bringing passengers. Someone called him at around 2 pm to drop a trip again.

Chiranjit denied at first citing the COVID curfew but finally relented and he went out and never returned home.

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At first, his family did not assume the worst but finally raised the alarm when he did not respond to their calls or messages for two days.

Even after a rigorous search when his family failed in locating him, Chiranjib's kin reached out to the Editor of a local Dimasa newspaper and urged him to search for Chiranjit and publicize his disappearance newspaper and social media as well.

On the same day in the evening, his family tried to call him again and was told that his Tata Youdha bearing registration number AS 02 CC 5366 was found in Waiyungdisha village; they found his wallet and Voter ID inside the vehicle.

The villagers searched for him everywhere but could not locate him as it was nighttime.

This morning, Chiranjit's dead body was finally found hanging by a tree at Waiyungdisha village of Gunjung area.

Sukhen Phonglo -- the editor contacted by the family -- said that the youth's death cannot be ruled a suicide considering the position of his body.

Phonglo also pointed out that a similar incident also took place during last year's lockdown in the month of April as well in Harangajao with a person named Santosh Hojai.

Repetition of these kinds of incidents is surely an indication of a serious matter of concern for the public, he asserted.

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