IMPHAL, May 5: A 27-year-old woman who was about to marry in 20 days died under suspicious circumstances in a hotel room in Rajasthan. Sources from her friends in Rajasthan reportedly told her family that she committed suicide along with her fiancé by consuming poison, but the fiancée’s family suspects foul play.
Naorem Reshma, also known as Bindibala, daughter of (L) Manitomba, a resident of Chingmeirong Lei Inkhol, Imphal East was working with a message company named SPA at Hotel Sheraton in Udaipur district of Rasasthan for the last three years, her family said. Her fiancé is identified as one Souraisam Shantikumar, also known as James, 29, son of Brajamani of Ningthemcha Karong in Imphal West.
They had eloped in August 2010 following which their marriage ceremony was fixed late May this year.
The body of Reshma was brought back to her native place on Saturday after conducting autopsy at a hospital in Udaipur.
According to her mother Shantibala, she received a STD call around 10:30 am of May 2 from Udaipur telling her that Reshma and Shantikumar attempted suicide by taking poisonous substance and they were in critical condition. The person on the phone was one of the friends of Reshma. She also told Shantibala to come in Udaipur immediately and inform the family of Shantikumar about the incident, and then Shantibala accompanied by two family members of the fiancé left Imphal for Rajasthan in the afternoon the same day.
Upon reaching in Rajasthan, they received another phone call speaking in Hindi which told them not to go to the hospital, but asked them to go to the police station. Later, at the police station, they were told that Reshma was dead while Shantikumar was in their custody for further interrogation, Shantibala further said.
She also said the police have already registered an FIR under IPC 306, 309 in connection with the alleged suicide case.
Reshma and Shantikumar had a quarrel on May 1 around 10:30 pm inside their room in the hotel; Rajasthan police quoted a source from the hotel as saying.
The FIR mentioned that the fiancés attempted suicide by consuming drugs. However, the mother rejected the FIR report, saying she suspected foul play over the death of her daughter.
The last rites of Reshma were held in the late afternoon today.