People of Vijay Nagar locality in the city woke up to a gory incident police on Tuesday morning when body of a young woman was found in gunnysack in Ishwar Nagar on Bapat square-Niranjanpur MR 11, near Brilliant Convention Centre.
The incident came to light around 8 am when some ragpickers found a sealed gunnysack containing body of the deceased lying on the roadside in Ishwar Nagar locality.
Initially the women ragpickers presuming that the gunnysack might be carrying some big thing for their uses but when they approached near the sack and noticed body of a woman. They immediately informed police about the matter.
Heera Nagar police team led by TI Sanjay Verma found the body packed inside a gunny fertilizer sack. They immediately called up the forensic expert Sudhir Sharma who arrived there his aids.
After opening the gunny sack, police found body of a young woman in the age-group of 25-26 years wearing a lower and purple colour T-shirt with both her hands and legs tied with a rope. The body, which appeared to be only 6-7 hours old, bore some stab marks on the neck.
The report spread like a wildfire in the locality with large number of people from adjoining localities coming to the incident site.
However, they could not identify the deceased. A preliminary investigation revealed that the woman might have been strangulated to death before being hanged from a rope. looking at the cloths and physical posture of the deceased, it appeared that she was possibly from a respectable family. Though police tried to trace identity of the deceased, they had not been able to ascertain it.
Police later sent the body to MY hospital for postmortem, suspected that the deceased before being strangulated to death, might have been physically molested. However, they are awaiting autopsy report. It would be premature to say anything in the issue before receiving postmortem report, said Heera Nagar TI Sanjay Verma.