In 20-year-old kidnapping, killing case Two accused in Imphal

Imphal: Twenty years after the 8-year-old daughter of a Manipur minister was abducted for ransom and murdered by an underground gang, Manipur’s Imphal East Session Judge on Tuesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to Two accused were found guilty in the charge sheet.

The hearing on the quantum of punishment for the two convicts will be held on March 13.
The two accused – who are now convicts – N Romi Meitei and Letkhosei Haokip (currently in judicial custody) were convicted under Sections 120-B, 364-A, and 302 of the IPC in the court of Sessions Judge RK Memcha on Tuesday.
The court dossier said that the banned Kangleipak Communist Party-Nando (KCP-N) group leader Tha Nando alias Nanao was accused in the same case but escaped from the JNIMS Orthopaedic ward on March 26, 2019. had gone.

The case was investigated by the CBI and a charge sheet was filed against 4 accused including Nando.
During the trial, one of the accused, O Deben alias Arnold, died.
8-year-old Lungnila Elizabeth, daughter of Minister Francis Ngajokpa, was abducted in front of her school gate (Little Flower School) on November 4, 2003.

Despite the family meeting demands for a ransom of Rs 10 lakh, on 12 November 2003, the highly decomposed body of Lungnila Elizabeth was found in a sack at Tera Sadokpam, Imphal West.