Rayagada: Police on Tuesday recovered the decomposed body of a married woman, who was missing for more than a week, from a forest in Odisha’s Rayagada.
According to sources, the woman, identified as A
skuli Majhi of Serubaru village in Dimiriguda panchayat under Ambadala police limits, was married to Sushant Majhi of Kamari village under same panchayat 5 years back. She went missing from house on September 24. After failing to trace her, her family filed a missing complaint at Ambadal police station on October 1.
While the investigation into the case was going on, the police were informed about a dead body hanging from a tree in the forest near Kamari. A police team led by IIC Satya Narayan Pradhan along with a scientific team went to the spot and recovered the body in presence of additional tehsildar of Muniguda Satya Narayan Pradhan.
The police have sent the body for post-mortem and registered a case of unnatural death in this regard. The cause of death would be ascertained after getting the post-mortem report, police sources said.