Police have found the body of a 27-year-old tribal woman from a roadside asbestos house in Mangalpur village under Jajpur district’s Sukinda police station on Saturday.
The body was replete with injury marks on neck, head, ear and other parts for which the police suspect that the woman was killed by some persons, said Sukinda PS IIC Sudipta Sahoo. “A case of murder and destroying evidence has been registered. The evidences found from the site have been sent to the forensic lab for investigation,” added Sahoo. The deceased was identified as Rita Deuri, a divorcee of Aalajauri village in Dhenkanal district. She had been staying in her relative’s house at Mangalpur for nearly a month.