Police sources today said here that Joseph Thanga (23), son of Sikar Marandi, a resident of Lawngtlai district in southern Mizoram, confessed to have killed IC Mishra (55) inside latter’s quarters at Tuithum near here on August 28.
He further confessed killing B Lalhmingpuia (43), inside the latters residence at Tuithiang locality here on January 13 this year. The accused was incarcerated in the Central Jail for smaller crimes earlier, where he said to his co-inmates that he had committed a murder.
Based on the information and the fact that at the time of his second victims death he was out of jail, the police zeroed in on him.