Woman murdered, body dumped in drain near Faridabad; one held

Victim went missing after leaving to pay bill; clothes found near site led family to body; FIR under BNS filed on son’s complaint

Published on: Apr 19, 2026, 03:10:15 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 45-year-old woman was murdered and her body dumped in a drain in a field on the outskirts of Kabulpur village near Sector 58 of Faridabad, police said on Saturday. One of the two accused has been arrested, while the prime accused remains absconding.

Autopsy confirms strangulation with injury marks; no sexual assault found; victim not carrying mobile when she went missing (Getty Images)

Police said the woman went missing on Wednesday morning after leaving home to pay an electricity bill. Her family later found her clothes, including a mangalsutra, near the drain on Friday and began searching the area between 10am and 11am. They spotted a leg in the water and alerted the police control room by 11.30am.

The body was pulled out and identified by the family. Inspector Vinod Kumar Yadav, station house officer of Sector-58 police station, said the autopsy was conducted on Saturday. “The cause of death was strangulation. There were injury marks on her neck. However, no signs of sexual assault were found,” he said. “She was not carrying her mobile phone. After she didn’t return home, her brother-in-law filed a missing report,” he added.

Police said the woman lived with her younger son, daughter and brother-in-law, while her husband and elder son worked in Chennai. On the complaint of her younger son, an FIR under section 103(1) (murder) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanita was registered on Friday.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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