Noida: Missing for 2 days, woman (47) found dead near society stairs

NOIDA: A 47-year-old woman, allegedly missing since May 9, was found dead near the stairs leading to her apartment at Purvanchal Royal Park in Sector 137 on Wednesday, police said. While no injury marks have been found on the body, the autopsy report stated she sustained a blow on the chest that lead to blood clotting and later a haemorrhage.
According to police, a missing person’s complaint was filed by Mamta Singh’s husband, Vijendra Prasad, at Sector 142 police station after the former went missing on Monday. Around 6 am on Wednesday, her body was spotted by a security guard of the complex behind some shrubbery near one of the two entry gates to the tower number 4, police said. Though Mamta lived on the first floor of the same tower with her two children and husband, the family members claimed neither they nor anyone from the housing society had spotted her body before Wednesday.
While police suspect the body could be a day or two old, they are analysing CCTV footage of the area to ascertain how it reached the spot.
“The security guard of tower 4 called the cops on spotting the body around 6 am in the shrubbery nearby the stairs of the building. When police reached the spot, they found the body in an overturned position near the stairs of the tower in which the woman’s flat is located on the first floor,” DCP (central Noida) Harish Chandar said, adding that the body seemed 1-2 days old.
“There are two entries to the tower. The body was found behind some shrubs near the second entry which leads to the stairs of the building. There were no strangulation or stab marks on the body,” the DCP said. The officer said it was very unlikely that no one spotted the body as the woman’s house is located just 10 feet above the spot where her body was found.
“We are investigating the matter from all angles. So far, the family has claimed that Mamta had gone missing on May 5 as well and was traced to Ranikhet and brought back by them. No police complaint was lodged at the time,” Chandar said.
The family has also claimed that the woman was suffering from depression for the past few months and spoke scarcely to them. Neighbour, however, told police that Mamta was a member of the society’s Apartment Owner’s Association till February this year.
Uttam Kumar, the SHO of Sector 142 police station, meanwhile, told TOI that the woman was lately reading a book and would write something on it as well. “The family members have told us that she felt a kind of “negative energy” around her,” he said, adding that further probe was underway in the matter.