Rajkot: A 42-year-old woman member of the Bodva village panchayat in Gir-Somnath district, was found murdered on Wednesday at a farm on the outskirts of her village.
Police said that the victim Nandu Rathod had left her house on Tuesday evening to meet farm labourers working for her, but she did not return till late night.
On Wednesday morning villagers found her body at a farm around 500 metres away from the village when they were searching for her.
Rathod was stabbed with a sharp-edged weapon in her chest, but the reason behind the attack is still being investigated.
“The woman had gone to instruct the farm labourers about the next day’s work, but never returned. Her son received a message seeking help on his phone from her number,” said a police official. Villagers, however, told the police that Rathod did not know how to read or write so it is suspected that somebody else may have sent the message.