A young woman’s body was recovered from a partially buried position beneath a mound of soil near Kannuthoppu bridge within the Vadalur police station limits in Cuddalore district on Friday, prompting a murder investigation, as reported in The New Indian Express.
According to police, the body was discovered along the Neyveli–Vadalur road, where construction work for the Vikravandi–Kumbakonam National Highway bypass project is currently under way. Large quantities of soil had been heaped at the location for the road project. Passersby reportedly noticed the partially buried body, whose face appeared disfigured, and alerted the authorities.
Following the information, Villupuram Superintendent of Police V.V. Sai Praneeth, Neyveli DSP Radhakrishnan, Cuddalore DSP Tamil Iniyan, Vriddhachalam DSP Balakrishnan and other police personnel visited the site and conducted an inquiry. The body was subsequently sent to the Government Hospital in Kurinjipadi for post-mortem examination.
Village Administrative Officer S. Sriraman informed police that the woman was dressed in orange leggings, a dark pink chudidhar with white floral patterns and a sandal-coloured dupatta. He further stated that a shawl had been used to cover the victim’s mouth and part of her face. He also reported that the body had been found with a slit throat and emitted a foul smell, leading to suspicion that the woman had been murdered.
Police initially suspected that the deceased was around 30 years old and may have died about two days earlier. Investigators began examining multiple possibilities, including whether the woman had been murdered and buried at the location, sexually assaulted and killed, or murdered elsewhere before her body was dumped at the site.
The deceased was later identified as Manjula, a resident of Vadalur.
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