The body of a 33-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds was found in her hut at Kalwa in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Friday.
The body was found on Thursday evening in Jai Bhim Nagar locality, they said.
The woman was identified as Kamlibai Pawar and her body was sent for post-mortem, the police said.
"A police team was informed about a woman lying in her house in an injured condition. The team rushed to the place and found the woman lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds," a police official said.
"Someone had attacked her with sharp weapons. The woman was rushed to a nearby civic hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead," he said.
The motive behind the murder is being probed and the accused is being identified, the police official said.
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