Woman's Decomposed Body Found In Thane; Cops Suspect Murder

A highly decomposed body of a 42-year-old woman was found dumped on a roadside near the Mumbai-Agra highway in Maharashtra, police said Sunday.

A group of devotees proceeding on foot to Shirdi temple town spotted the body, bearing injury marks on head, at a forest in Asangaon area of Sahapur taluka on Friday, an official at Sahapur police station said.

An Aadhaar card found stuck in her clothes revealed her identity as Vandana Khermode, hailing from Solapur district in Maharashtra, he said.

The police subsequently sent the body for post-mortem to J J Hospital in neighbouring Mumbai.

Based on the autopsy report, a case was registered by the police on Saturday under IPC section 302 (murder) against unidentified persons, he said.

The body was later handed over to the woman's relatives, he said, adding that a probe was on to ascertain why and where she was killed.