A body of a young girl with a rope mark on her neck was recovered from the Muruna Bagurpada Canal under the Simulia police station in Soro of the district on Tuesday.
The identity of the deceased was yet to be ascertained.
Sources said some locals this morning spotted the body of the girl floating in the canal and informed the police about it.
Police reached the spot and recovered the body from the canal. The body was then seized and sent to a local hospital for postmortem. There was a rope mark on the girl’s neck which clearly points that she was strangulated to death, sources said.
While a detailed investigation into the matter is underway, it is suspected to be a “planned murder”. The postmortem report would ascertain the cause of death, police said.