Manipuri PhD scholar murder:Cops yet to find any credible lead

Delhi Police is still groping in the dark in a case relating to the murder of a 33-year-old PhD scholar from Manipur at his house in South Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur, with his kin today saying that they would not take the body back home unless their was any headway in the probe.
Even after more than 24 hours of the murder of Keashung Zingram Kengoo, who had completed his PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and had come here just a month ago in search of a job, police have not been able to get any credible lead in the case.

Meanwhile, relatives of the victim today said they would not take the body back home unless postmortem and forensic reports were out and they are convinced about the probe of the case.
"We can take the body to our native village in Ukhrul district of Manipur right now. We want to be convinced about what really happened," said one of the relatives.
"If the police know that the postmortem and forensic reports are due to come by tomorrow or any day in the near future, why can't they tell us for our convenience," he said.
Yesterday, forensic officials had visited the crime spot and collected evidence.

According to police, apparently there was no sign of physical conflict in Keashung's room as most of the things were found in a well organised state.

"So it is possible that the attack was sudden and the victim did not get any time to react," a police official said.
Police has not ruled out probabilities of personal enmity or sudden provocation behind the murder.
"It was not an incident of robbery. Probabilities of personal enmity or sudden provocation have not been ruled out," the official said.
The victim was found murdered with his neck slit with a knife on November 19.

The police had said that there were no sign of forced entry into the house and laptop, mobile phone, wallet, books and other materials kept in the room were found to be intact.
A knife, suspected to be the murder weapon, was also found lying next to the body towards its left-hand side.
The body was sent for postmortem and the victim's brother, who lives in Chirag Delhi area, was informed.
Meanwhile, a 23-year-old youth hailing from the same state was yesterday found dead under mysterious circumstances at his home in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar.