Mystery shrouded the death of a woman, whose body with hands and legs tied was found on roadside on NH-5 near Bhakuda Chhak under the Balichandrapur police station in Jajpur district on Tuesday morning.
However, the identity of the deceased was yet to be ascertained. Sources said that some locals first spotted the body in a bush on the roadside when they had gone to collect firewood at around 7 am. Getting information, the Balichandrapur police reached the spot, recovered the body and sent it to the Badachana hospital for postmortem.
Though the reason behind the incident was yet to be ascertained, police suspected that the woman died four or five days ago.