A woman was reportedly raped and murdered at Muribahal under the Titilagarh police limits in Balangir district on Thursday. Her naked body was found tied to a tree at a forest near Satabahani village.
Till last reports came in, the identity of the woman was yet to be established.
The body was initially spotted by locals at the forest in morning.
On being informed by them, police reached the spot, recovered the body and sent it for postmortem.
Police suspected that the woman was forcibly brought to the place by a group of persons and later raped and murdered. Circumstantial evidences indicated that the she was stabbed in chest with a knife leading to her death.