The story about her invitation to UNISDR was first published in Guwahati-based media house, reportedly based on a press release received from International Youth Committee (IYC) claiming that the seven-year-old has been selected to address a session at the UN headquarters in Geneva on May 13-17. However, it was taken down after Imphal Free Press contacted them and raised doubts about the legitimacy of the story.

Imphal Free Press brought to the fore the fact that IYC Chairman Dr Kangujam Kanarjit Singh is the same person who they exposed as a con man.

Kangujam Kanarjit, who is behind the Global Youth Summit and World Youth Summit, is charged of cheating and fraud. The man is also involved in an alleged sham case wherein he allegedly sold same property to multiple people.

Meanwhile, Swapnanil Talukdar, an innovation scholar and President’s Awardee for innovation, who was associated with IYC’s World youth Conference 2016 held in New Delhi as an international speaker, said that Singh had told him that his daughter was invited to Geneva in 2018 where she was the youngest speaker of the event.

The pictures for a similar event from 2018 were found on her now-deleted Facebook profile. But the fact which raised eyebrows is that though her display picture was from 2018, but other pictures were uploaded only on April 22.

The story of Licypriya was picked by several regional as well as national media houses as positive news from the state and the region, but appears to be a farce. Her association with UN on any event in any previous years is under investigation along with the URL she provided.

PS: EastMojo had published her “achievement” story like other media organisations but retracted it after it came to know about the alleged fraud.