Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a woman’s naked body was found in a culvert at Chevella town, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. According to the police, the woman’s face was smashed beyond recognition and her hands were tied with a rope but her jewellery was intact, The Times of India reported.

The police suspect that the assailants strangled the woman at a different place and her body was dumped at the spot where she was found by the locals next morning, but they have to wait for the post-mortem reports to ascertain if she was raped. The doctors who performed the postmortem on the woman, who police said was aged between 25 to 30 years, at the government hospital told the police that she had a healed caesarean mark.