New Delhi: A young woman from Assam, who was missing from Delhi since Thursday, was found dead in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. This comes on the heels of the murder of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi, apparently by killers hired by his newly-wedded wife Sonam, in Meghalaya on May 23.
Recovery of Rosmita Hojai’s body from a riverbank at Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, has left many people wondering whether her death was an accident or murder.
Rosmita was from the Dima Hasao district of Assam. An engineering graduate, she was preparing for the UPSC. She travelled to Delhi last week to appear for a Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination on June 5 (Thursday). After that examination, she called up her parents at Dima Hasao and told them that she would take a train back to Assam on Friday (June 6).
That was the last time her parents, from the Sontila Hojai village near Haflong – the district capital of Dima Hasao – heard of Rosmita.
On June 6, her parents received a call from the Uttarakhand police with information that their daughter had been seen to have drowned in a river in that state. Two young men had reportedly informed the Uttarakhand police about the incident. It was not known what Rosmita, who had plans to start for Assam on June 6, was doing in Uttarakhand on that date.
There was no further development till Tuesday when her body was recovered on the bank of a river at the Pauri Garhwal district.
Uttarakhnad police have questioned Hemant Sharma of Mohindergarh, Delhi and Pankaj Kokar of Haryana, who reported Rosmita’s disappearance at the Shivpuri police station of Uttarakhand. They had claimed that Rosmita was washed away by the river.
People at Dima Hasao have demanded a fair probe in the matter. There are reports that Sharma and Kokar were seen with Rosmita.
