A 66-year-old woman, who originally hails from Kolkata, was allegedly killed by an unidentified man at her Dehradun house in the wee hours of Wednesday. According to police officials, the woman, a retired female professor, was found dead in Doiwala area of Uttarakhand.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, the deceased was identified Putup Ghosh and she used to live alone in her house in Dehradun. Senior sub-inspector Mahavir Singh Rawat, who is probing the case, said, "The incident seemed to have happened at night as police were informed by a local on Wednesday at around 7 am after which we rushed to the spot to initiate an investigation."