Bijnor, 03 Aug (HS): A 35-year-old woman's mutilated

body was discovered in a field near Afzalgarh in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor

district, police reported on Sunday. While police presume a leopard attacked

her, forest officials believe it was a case of murder, with the corpse later. According

to Afzalgarh Circle Officer Rajesh Solanki, the lady was attacked by a leopard

while collecting cow feed in a field near the town on Saturday evening. Her

body was subsequently discovered brutally disfigured. According to Solanki, the

first clues point to a leopard assault, but more information would be revealed

following the postmortem examination. However, Bijnor Divisional Forest Officer

(DFO) Abhinav Raj refuted the police narrative, stating that the injury marks

and circumstances lead to murder. It looks that there has been a murder. He speculated that some animal may have eaten

some of the body after it died. Police have submitted the deceased for a

postmortem, and additional investigation is underway.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi