BIJNOR: The naked body of a 60-year-old woman, who had been missing since Saturday night, was found abandoned in a sugar field outside a village under Didauli police station area in Amroha district on Sunday morning.
Police said that they had registered an FIR against unidentified persons for the rape and murder of a woman.
Police said the woman was widowed 15 years ago and had been living with her brother since then. She had no issue.
She had gone to dump the household trash at a bin located outside the village around 10 pm on Saturday and did not return, said police, adding that her family found her half-naked body lying in a sugarcane field adjacent to a primary school.
Soon police also arrived at the scene and sent the body to the district hospital for autopsy.
The family alleged that she was raped and then murdered. Police, however, denied the rape charges.
Didauli station house officer Mohit Chaudhary said, “It seems that the woman was strangled. A case has been registered against unidentified assailants. The autopsy report is awaited. We will solve the case, soon.”
