Imphal. April 25 NNN: A man was caught red-handed while reportedly sucking blood from a 3 year old boy after cutting the boy’s left palm with a sickle at Keirao Bitra Mayai Leikai under Irilbung police station in Imphal East district.
The person, identified as Maibam Jiban (32) s/o M.Iboyai of Yambem Mathak Leikai, Yairipok was staying at the house of his sister P (O) Ibemcha at Keirao, it is reported.
The boy is identified as Pukhrambam Prithiviraj, s/o P. Surjit and P.(O) Ibemcha of Keirao Bitra Mayai Leikai under Irilbung police station, Imphal East district.
The boy was playing with his younger sister, grandmother and Jiban (his maternal uncle) in their courtyard at around 11:30 am today when their grandmother heard Prithiviraj cried out loudly and turned to see that Jiban was allegedly holding the boy and sucking blood from his left palm.
On seeing the scary sight of Jiban sucking blood from the hand of her grandson, the old woman ran to fetch the mother of the boy who had gone to attend a religious ceremony nearby and whose father was also out on some business, with the younger sister of Prithiviraj tied on her back.
Meanwhile, local people of the area came out and saw what was happening and tried to stop Jiban from harming the boy further. But Jiban put the sickle on the neck of the boy and threatened that the consequence would not be good if the people tried to come near him.
But finally the people of the locality managed to disarm Jiban and stoppeed him from doing any further harm to the boy, though he suffered deep cut on his left palm between the thumb and index finger, and had sickle mark on his neck where Jiban had pressed the sickle. The local people also thrashed Jiban.
The police have picked up Jiban and taken him to Irilbung police station for further action, it is reported.
One woman expressed that till today they had heard about such blood curling events through newspapers, but now that such incidents are happening in their locality she was afraid to let her children play outside as they can easily become victims of such crimes.
Another person stated that Jiban seemed to a drug user, though he denied that he was a drug user to the police and media persons.
Meanwhile, Jiban denied of sucking blood of the boy. He said he was playing with the boy.
Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/blood-sucking-man-held/
