Punjab shocker: Woman’s naked body found in Ropar; 3-year-old daughter missing

CHANDIGARH: A 29-year-old woman, whose naked body was found on August 12 in Kiratpur Sahib in Punjab’s Ropar district, has been identified. She was from the remote tribal region of Pangi in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district.The tribal woman, who was married in Lahaul’s Madgram Village, had been missing from Kullu along with her three-year-old daughter since August 4. The family members of the victim said that the child was still missing.According to the family members, the woman had travelled to Kullu for the medical treatment of her daughter but went missing soon afterward. A family member told TOI that they suspected the kidnapping and murder of the woman.The woman spoke to her husband last time on August 4 when she informed him that she was safe and in Manali.However, after the woman's phone went switched off on August 4, her husband also reached Kullu from Lahaul and started searching for her at their relatives' houses. When he couldn’t find her and the daughter, the family informed Lahaul Spiti police on August 6 and filed a complaint of kidnapping.Authorities in northern India are investigating the suspected murder of a woman from Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul region after her naked body was found along a roadside in Punjab’s Ropar district.Meanwhile, family members of the victim reached Ropar on August 14, a day after they came to know of the body. A police officer said that a postmortem would be conducted after a police team from Udaipur police station in Lahaul Spiti arrives in Ropar.It may be mentioned that on August 12, passersby had discovered the body on the outskirts of Bara Pind village, near Kiratpur Sahib, near the Chandigarh–Manali highway.