Prima facie it is a case of suicide, Kopri police station's senior inspector Ranjeet Dere said.
The body of a 25-year-old woman has been found hanging at a room in a chawl in Thane city of Maharashtra, officials said on Wednesday.
Prima facie it is a case of suicide, Kopri police station’s senior inspector Ranjeet Dere said.
An official from Kopri fire station said they received a call at around 10 pm on Monday from some occupants of the chawl (row tenement), located at Koliwada in Thane (East), about foul smell emanating from a locked house there.
Fire personnel rushed to the spot, cut open the house lock and found a woman, who was unmarried, hanging from an iron bar in a room, he said, adding the deceased was a tenant at the chawl.
After being alerted, the Kopri police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem.
The police on Tuesday registered a case of accidental death and were conducting a probe into it.
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