Nahan, May 14
A man from Haryana’s Ambala district has been taken into custody after the partially burnt body of an unidentified woman was recovered from a forest area near Dhaula Kuan in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmour district, police said on Wednesday.
The woman, believed to be in her late 30s, was found in the dense Karaunde Wali Ghati forest near a police battalion camp after local residents alerted authorities earlier in the day. Police said the identity of the deceased has not yet been established.
According to investigators, the suspect was detained near Bata Bridge in Paonta Sahib following an examination of CCTV footage and inputs received from Haryana Police. Officials said the accused is a resident of Barara town in Haryana’s Ambala district, where a kidnapping case had already been registered against him.
Sirmour Superintendent of Police Nischint Singh Negi confirmed that one person had been taken into custody in connection with the case after coordination with the Haryana Police.
Police are probing whether the woman was killed in Haryana before her body was transported to the forest area in Paonta Sahib and set on fire in an attempt to destroy evidence.
The postmortem examination of the deceased is scheduled to be conducted on Thursday at Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College in Nahan.
Investigators are continuing efforts to establish the identity of the woman and ascertain the sequence of events leading to her death.
