Guwahati Police recovered the remains of a 38-year-old woman wrapped inside a gunny bag near the Ganesh Temple in Khanapara at around 11:15 am on Saturday, ending a 12-day frantic search by her family.
Locals raised the alarm. Residents walking past the perimeter noticed human limbs protruding from a discarded sack near the shrine and alerted Dispur Police Station immediately. Patrol units sealed the perimeter within minutes, dispatching forensic specialists to comb the ground for trace evidence and secure the recovery site.
The victim was a mother of two from nearby Koinadhora. She earned her living working ticket collection desks across the transit-heavy Khanapara hub, an interchange connecting Assam to neighbouring hill districts. Her abrupt disappearance nearly two weeks ago had triggered search efforts by her relatives, who lodged an initial missing-person complaint at Basistha Police Station and expanded their inquiries across the state border into Meghalaya.
Preliminary examinations conducted at the scene revealed the body had reached an advanced stage of decomposition—clothing and bangles intact on the remains aided acquaintances in making a preliminary identification. Forensic experts noted that physical conditions pointed to death having occurred approximately a week earlier, though conclusive timelines remain subject to formal pathological findings.
Crime branch teams moved the remains to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death and verify whether physical trauma or assault took place before the body was dumped.
No suspects have been officially named. Dispur investigators are reviewing access corridors around the temple grounds to reconstruct how the sack was transported to the location undetected. Detectives are now questioning local transit workers and reviewing cross-border leads to establish the exact sequence of events leading up to the fatality.