The Sundargarh police recovered a few bones and skull of a woman from an abandoned well on Tuesday evening. The deceased woman was not identified. Police also recovered a saree, bangles and a pair of chappals from the well. The bones and skull have been sent to Burla for forensic testing. Sources said after getting information about some bones and a saree floating inside an abandoned well at Teling Dam near Sinhanimunda under Bhasma police station, Bhasma police team led by IIC Sanatan Mahanand went to the spot located in an isolated hilly and forest area. They called the Fire brigade team to recover the decomposed body. later in presence of Magistrate Manoj Kumar Panda, the police called the villagers nearby to identify the deceased woman but none had any clue. The police registered an unnatural death case and started a probe into the case.
SI D Nayak of Bhasama police station said the cause of death of the woman could be known after reports of the test. It is now suspected that the woman after being murdered had been dumped inside the abandoned well.