India, Oct. 12 -- The headless body of Ajinbou Ringkangmai, one of the victims of the killings in Manipur's Makui Asang and Tapon Naga villages, arrived at the mortuary of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in Imphal around midnight on Sunday, while the Joint Tribes Council (JTC-Manipur) issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Centre and the state government to recover his missing head.

The JTC-Manipur has refused to allow the post-mortem examination of Ajinbou and another victim, Dibambou Ringkangmai, to proceed until Ajinbou's missing head is recovered and handed over to his family for a dignified burial, the council's representatives said.

Several people gathered at the JNIMS mortuary to offer condolences to the ber...