Woman's body found floating in drain

A woman’s body was found floating in a drain in west Delhi’s Baprola on Monday morning, the police said.

The police have registered a case of murder against unknown people and investigation has been started.

The body which bears multiple stab wounds was first spotted by morning walkers in the area, the police said.

 “A man who had come for morning walk informed the police about a body floating in the drain. We fished it out and found several stab wounds on it,” said a police officer.

The woman has been identified as Pinki (40), and the police have kept her body in a mortuary after conducting post-mortem.

Pinki had been living in Baprola village with her daughter Madhu (18), for the last few months.

Her husband Jaswant Singh lives in Lakhimpur Khiri and works as farm labourer. Pinki had also come to Delhi to work as a farm labourer.

According to the police, she was working in a farm.

Pinki’s daughter told the police that on Sunday evening around 4 pm, her mother told her that she was going to Nangloi to search for a new place to work.

However, when she didn’t return even at late night, her daughter starterted searching for her. When she couldn’t found her anywhere, Madhu returned home.

In the morning when Madhu went to police station to lodge a missing complaint of her mother, she got to know about the body of a woman being found from a drain. Madhu was shown the body and she identified her mother.

The police have informed Pinki’s husband also about her death and he was coming to Delhi to collect her body.

The police are hoping to find some clues after speaking to Pinki’s husband.

Meanwhile, the police are aslo speaking to the previous employers of the woman and finding out if she had any dispute or fight with anyone.