Woman's skeleton found in Delhi's Dwarka

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) A skeleton of a woman was found in Baba Haridas Nagar in Delhi's Dwarka, said police on Monday.

Sources said that some pieces of winter clothes were found on her body, indicating that she may have died a long time ago. The police said that it was a decomposed body.

According to the police, on Sunday morning, at around 11:00 a.m., they received information about the body through a PCR call.

"The caller told the police that something had been thrown into a drum in their field, which was attached to a tube well. There was a foul odour coming from it," said the police.

After receiving the information, the police reached the crime scene and removed the corpse to a nearby government hospital where her post-mortem will be conducted.

The police said that they were trying to ascertain the identity of the woman.

"Only an autopsy can reveal the cause of death. We can't comment on the matter right now," the police said.

However, the sources in the police claimed that it was a murder case. "The woman was murdered and then her body was dumped here," the source said.

The owner of the field, Vinod, and the tenant, Shishupal told the police that he had noticed the smell coming from the tubewell in the morning. Police said that they were looking into the matter.