Chandigarh: The naked body of a 40-year-old woman was found in the Maloya Forest area on Wednesday morning.
The police suspected that the woman was sexually attacked and then killed.
A pair of socks filled in his mouth.
His clothes were found several meters away from the crime site.
The victim used to sell vegetables.
Her husband is the driver of the car.
He survived him and three children.
The man said he dropped his wife at Maloya Bus Stand on Tuesday.
He went to the market to buy some household items at 8pm.
He said he kept waiting for him but he didn’t return.
Then, along with his nephew, the man began to look for him.
When he failed to track it, he filed a complaint at the Maloya police station at 10 pm.
However, he, the suspicion of the police told him to look for it for another hour and then they would file a formal complaint.
They finally did it when he returned after one hour.
At 9 am on Wednesday, a pedestrian saw the body and got information on the police control room.
He was in receiving information, Ketan Bansal, SP (City), Sho of Maloya Police Station and other police reached the place and took the body to the morgue of a multi-special hospital, sector 16, for autopsy.
A Central Forensic Science Laboratory Team (CFSL) also reached the place and gathered evidence for further investigation.
The police said there was no sign of the main injury found in the body and suspected he was strangled to death.
Bansal said a murder case was registered against an unknown person and the police would strengthen rape after post-mortem reports.