The police on Monday morning recovered a decomposed body of a woman from a trolley bag at the post-mortem house in the Seraikela Sadar Hospital.

The police had found the trolley bag from a ditch along NH-33 in Pardih under Chandil thana area in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district near Jamshedpur on Sunday night, confirming a human corpse inside following a rag-picker had discovered it.

The Chandil police had recovered the bag and had shifted the trolley bag to the Seraikela Sadar Hospital morgue on Sunday night. On Monday morning, a police party led by Chandil thana OC, Sumesh Kumar Chaudhury had reached the Sadar Hospital morgue to unravel the mystery.

"It was the body of a woman stuffed into the trolley bag. We could not determine her age as the body was about 20 days old and badly decomposed. But from a pair of sandals that was inside the bag, we can say the deceased was a young woman," said the OC while talking to The Telegraph Online.

Chaudhury said this to be a case of murder. "Someone might have stuffed the body in the bag and dropped it in the ditch at this lonely stretch of NH-33. Moreover, the spot where the trolley bag was found is located just 10 metres away from the Mango thana border which suggests that the assailants must be local having complete knowledge about the jurisdiction of the police stations in East Singhbhum and adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan districts," said Chaudhury.

Chaudhury pointed out the stretch of NH-33 along which the trolley bag was found has no CCTV camera, something the assailants must have seen before dropping the bag there.