Woman’s body found in Gopalganj village

PATNA: Police recovered the body of a married woman from the banks of the Gandak at Rampur Tengrahi village under the Jadopur police station area in Gopalganj on Wednesday. However, her identity is yet to be ascertained.
“The woman, whose throat had been slit, was spotted by the villagers at 10am. In her mid-20s, she was wearing a ‘salwar-kameez’,” Jadopur police station SHO Mithilesh Prasad Singh told TOI over the phone.He added that a pair of slippers and a plastic bag on which the address of a Kushinagar-based garment shop was mentioned were also recovered from the spot.
Police suspect that the woman was brought to the murder spot from Uttar Pradesh (UP) and killed so that she could not be traced easily. “There were blood stains everywhere, but no sharp weapon was recovered,” the SHO said, adding that the murder could be the fallout of an illicit relationship or a case of honour killing.
A police team is set to leave for Kushinagar in UP on Thursday morning for investigating the case and ascertaining the woman’s identity. Her photograph has already been circulated in all the police stations of Gopalganj.
The SHO said, “The postmortem has been conducted at the sadar hospital where the body will be preserved for the next 72 hours.”