Aizawl: The body of a missing 15-year-old girl was found near her school in Mualthuam North village in Lunglei district on Wednesday, with police suspecting homicide.H Ramdinpuii, a Class X student at Mualthuam North High School, was reported missing on Monday night. Her relatives and village volunteers found her body in a thicket near the school around 10am on Wednesday.Witnesses said the girl had two apparent sharp-weapon injuries on her throat. “The cause of the death will be determined after a post-mortem examination,” police said.According to preliminary reports, the girl was using her father’s mobile phone on the night she was reported missing and was in contact with another person suspected to be her boyfriend. However, all the conversations were allegedly found deleted after her body was found.Village volunteers searched the same area on Tuesday where her body was later found but saw nothing, raising suspicion that she was killed elsewhere and her body was later dumped near the school.The Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl (MHIP), a women’s organisation, and the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), a Mizo students’ federation, have issued media releases condemning the alleged murder of the schoolgirl and urged the authorities to launch an investigation.
