IMPHAL May 16: The respective families of M Dayananda Singh and M Premananda Singh, who were killed by the Kuki Revolutionary Front, have taken their bodies today following the agreement reached between the JAC formed in connection with the incident and the government today.
Post mortem of the bodies was conducted today at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences.
The bodies have been lying unclaimed in the morgue since May 12 last.
Family members of Semngam Haokip who was killed during the bandh in the aftermath of the killing of the two labourers have also claimed his body today after post mortem was conducted at RIMS morgue.
Police escorted the families to ensure that no untoward incidents happen during the journey from the morgue to their respective residences.
Their last funeral rituals were conducted peacefully later.
It may be recalled that M. Dayananda Singh and M. Premananda Singh were working as labourers at Mapao Khullen and allegedly murdered by KRF cadres at Thingshat village.
Later after the arrest of 8 KRF cadres, the two dead bodies were exhumed from two different locations and deposited at RIMS morgue.
Several civil society groups across communities had denounced the gruesome incident of killing innocent laborers and torturing a minor student by KRF cadres. The State was gripped in a protest bandh and counter curfew by the government for the last four days.
In the unfortunate violence that followed, a church at Patsoi lamkhai was set ablaze, four vehicles were set aflame and a shaktiman driver Semngam Haokip was beaten to death and three others were left injured.