Chhatrapati

Sambhajinagar, 28 June (HS): A woman religious preacher in her fifties was

murdered by an unidentified individual who smashed her head with a stone in the

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district on Saturday, police said. Sadhvi Sangita

Pawar's corpse was discovered in the morning by the priest of a temple in the

ashram in Chinchadgaon, where she was residing, according to an official.

Sadhvi

was residing at Sadguru Narayangiri Maharaj Kanya Ashram.

At about 6.30 a.m.,

the temple priest arrived to the ashram to execute the daily pooja

ceremony. When he contacted Sadhvi, he

got no answer. She was discovered lying

in a pool of blood in the temporary shed where she was sleeping, according to a

police officer. According to early evidence, Sadhvi was asleep when someone

struck her skull with a stone. “The lock of the temple was discovered to be

broken. There's a temple nearby. We are investigating whether anything was

stolen from there,” the officer stated. Local MLA Ramesh Bornare described the

situation as fortunate and sought the arrest of those responsible.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi