Newlywed woman found dead in Sama

Vadodara: Body of an 18-year-old woman was found under mysterious conditions in an unoccupied house near Aiyappa Temple in Sama Wednesday morning.
Deceased Karuna Patel, who got married on May 13, had gone missing from her in-law’s house at Vraj Vihar Society in Sama since May 27. A woman, who lives beside the house from where Patel’s body was found, sighted the body when she was taking morning walk on the terrace of her house on Wednesday morning. The woman called police control room.

Police said that Patel did not have injury marks on her body except a mark of blood clot on her right cheek. A dupatta was also tied to her right leg, the police said.

As the news spread in the neighbourhood, several people gathered there one of whom was Patel’s husband Jayesh. His house is in the same neighbourhood from where the woman’s body was found. On identifying his wife, Jayesh got concussions and collapsed.

While the police has registered a case of accidental death, they are not ruling out foul play in the case. “A dupatta was tied to her leg and there was foam around her mouth. Secondly, her body’s position was also little strange. We will wait for the postmortem report to ascertain the exact reason behind death,” said a police official involved with the investigation. Cops also said that the body was lying there for several hours since ants were also found crawling on it.

According to police sources, Patel had got married on May 13 with Jayesh, who is currently unemployed. After spending two days in Sama, she went to her parents’ house in Kalol taluka of Panchmahal.

Her father Nagin, who works in a factory at Panchmahal, came to drop her on May 27 at her in-law’s house. Police said that on May 27, Patel had her dinner early and when other members of the family were eating dinner, she was sitting outside the house on a swing from where she went missing.

When the police questioned, Jayesh, he told them that he did not make any efforts to find his wife.