Uttar Pradesh: Naked body of widow found in field in Kheri village

BAREILLY

: The naked body of a 45-year-old woman, who went missing on Wednesday, was found in a

sugarcane

field in a village in Lakhimpur Kheri on Thursday. It is suspected that the woman was raped and then killed. Police have sent the body for postmortem.


According to police, before leaving her house on Wednesday, the woman, a widow, had told her children that she was going to buy ration. She, then, first went to a bank and withdrew Rs 500. When she didn’t return home by the evening, her children and villagers started looking for her. However, the woman’s naked body was found on Thursday.

Police are suspecting that she was strangled.

Station house officer, Haiderabad police station, Dharam Das Siddharth, said, “We are awaiting the postmortem report to ascertain whether she was raped or not and the cause of her death.”



(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

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