Jalandhar, September 17 Girija Devi (52), a migrant labourer and a resident of Hirapur in Lambra, was found murdered in the morning in the fields near her house. Devi, along with her family members, had celebrated the birth of her grandson at a party in her house and had gone outside, after which she went missing. The police are investigating the matter and said that the family members didn’t look for Devi, as they had gone to sleep and had thought that Devi, too, might be sleeping somewhere in the house. It was only in the morning that the family found her in a pool of blood in the fields. The police said that she had been murdered by a sharp-edged weapon with which her throat was slit. The police said that the family was suspecting one Chottu in their neighbourhood and the police are investigating his role in the case. The police said the postmortem would reveal many things in the case. A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered in the matter.

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