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ITANAGAR, 11 Oct:<\/strong> The finding of an unidentified decomposed body of a female from the Lekhi Hapa quarry site near the Dikrong river on 27 September is now being investigated as a murder case.<\/p>\n The development came about after the police received the result of the postmortem on Sunday, which mentioned the death as having occurred “due to ante-mortem head injury (left temporal fissure fracture) which is homicidal in nature.”<\/p>\n The body has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n Nirjuli Police Station OC M Geyi, who is also the IO of the case which has been reregistered as a murder case now, informed that efforts are being made to identify the deceased, and that the family members of various missing cases are being called to identify the body.<\/p>\n “We are verifying various missing cases from all over the capital region. We have also sent WT messages all over the Northeast states to help identify the body,” he informed.<\/p>\n The OC has urged people to come forward and identify the body.<\/p>\n He informed that the body is of someone between 16 and 18 years of age, around 4.9 to 5.3 ft tall, with long black hair and fair complexion.<\/p>\n “She was found wearing a red top, yellow jogger pants, pink embroidered dupatta with flower images and beads with black thread around her waist. A white ladies’ sandal was also seized from the point of occurrence,” the OC said.<\/p>\n He further informed that the tooth sample and hair of the deceased have been preserved for DNA comparison with family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 11 Oct: The finding of an unidentified decomposed body of a female from the Lekhi Hapa quarry site near the Dikrong river on 27 September is now being investigated as a murder case. The development came about after the police received the result of the postmortem on Sunday, which mentioned the death as having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}