Missing for 4 days, 18-year-old woman found hanging from tree

MALDA: The body of an 18-yearold woman, who had gone missing four days ago, was found hanging from a tree in a mango orchard at Niyamatpur-Amgachhi village in the Englishbazar area of Bengal’s Malda district on Thursday morning, according to the police.

The woman, a Class 12 student in a local school, lived about 4 km away from where her body was found by local farmers who were passing through the orchard, the police added.

The body has been sent to Malda Medical College and Hospital for an autopsy.

“My daughter left the house on Sunday morning, saying she was going to her private tutor. But she did not return and we could not contact her on her phone,” the father of the victim said.

“I suspect that she was gang raped and subsequently strangled.

“A lot of people pass through this orchard everyday, but nobody saw the body before Thursday morning.

She was possibly killed late Wednesday. I want stern punishment for the culprits,” he added.

The inspector in charge of the Englishbazar police station, Purnendu Kundu, said that no arrests were made yet.