SURAT: A 35-year-old woman was found murdered in a farm near Kosamada village in Kamrej district of Surat on Monday.
The woman was strangled with a piece of cloth and her throat had been slit with a sharp-edged weapon. Police have got specific leads that the woman had gone to meet an acquaintance before her body was found.
Body of Varsha Zala, a resident of Varachha, was found in the sugarcane farm of Jayanti Patel at Kosamada village. A knife and a cutter were found near the body besides the mobile phone of the deceased. Police contacted relatives of the deceased from the phone diary.
The woman left home on Sunday afternoon informing her daughters that she was going out for some work and will return soon. When she did not return till late night, her husband Pravin lodged a missing persons complaint at Varachha police station.
Varachha police failed to locate the woman. "We passed on the message to nearby police stations, but no immediate information was received," the police said.
Varsha's body was not properly covered with her sari. Police sent the body for postmortem and investigating if she was raped before her murder.
Police suspect that a person known to the woman had killed her. "We are yet to identify any person behind the crime, but we have got some specific leads. We will crack the case soon," police inspector of Kamrej police station K V Chudasma said.
The woman was strangled with a piece of cloth and her throat had been slit with a sharp-edged weapon. Police have got specific leads that the woman had gone to meet an acquaintance before her body was found.
Body of Varsha Zala, a resident of Varachha, was found in the sugarcane farm of Jayanti Patel at Kosamada village. A knife and a cutter were found near the body besides the mobile phone of the deceased. Police contacted relatives of the deceased from the phone diary.
The woman left home on Sunday afternoon informing her daughters that she was going out for some work and will return soon. When she did not return till late night, her husband Pravin lodged a missing persons complaint at Varachha police station.
Varachha police failed to locate the woman. "We passed on the message to nearby police stations, but no immediate information was received," the police said.
Varsha's body was not properly covered with her sari. Police sent the body for postmortem and investigating if she was raped before her murder.
Police suspect that a person known to the woman had killed her. "We are yet to identify any person behind the crime, but we have got some specific leads. We will crack the case soon," police inspector of Kamrej police station K V Chudasma said.
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