<p>On a tip off that a tin-box was lying on the banks of a canal near the Viratipathu check-post and foul smell was emanating from it, police went to the spot.<br /><br />On opening the box, body of the missing 23-year-old woman, Latha, who was working as a pharmacist in a medical shop, was recovered from it last night.<br /><br />Police said her face was mutilated, legs found crushed and one hand had been cut. Latha had got married two years ago to a software engineer, police said, adding her husband had lodged a complaint that his wife had gone missing. The couple's first child had died soon after it was born, police added.</p>
<p>On a tip off that a tin-box was lying on the banks of a canal near the Viratipathu check-post and foul smell was emanating from it, police went to the spot.<br /><br />On opening the box, body of the missing 23-year-old woman, Latha, who was working as a pharmacist in a medical shop, was recovered from it last night.<br /><br />Police said her face was mutilated, legs found crushed and one hand had been cut. Latha had got married two years ago to a software engineer, police said, adding her husband had lodged a complaint that his wife had gone missing. The couple's first child had died soon after it was born, police added.</p>