Dilip Kumar

Bhubaneswar: The unidentified woman, whose headless body was recovered on the city outskirts two days ago, was strangulated to death before she was beheaded, post mortem reports have revealed.

Top sources, quoting autopsy findings, told OTV on Saturday the woman had died due to strangulation before her head was severed from the body.

However, the police claimed that they were still to receive the report as the body had been sent to the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar for re-post-mortem.

The police in the meantime have released posters of the body detailing the physical attributes of the victim while appealing people to call on a help line (8280338323, 8280338296) in order to help establish her identity. The cops have also released a photograph of the deceased woman with a tattoo on her hand for identification.

The headless body of the woman was found in a bushy area on the Andharua-Daspur Road on Thursday.

Police had initially suspected that the woman was murdered and then beheaded in order to destroy her identity.

Police have launched an investigation after registering a case under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence). The investigating officials have also recovered some clothes, ostensibly belonging to the victim, from the spot.

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