India, July 5 -- A 55-year-old domestic help was found dead inside her Nepean Sea Road residence on Saturday in a suspected murder that came to light after her employer informed her daughter that she had not reported for work. Police have registered a murder case against an unidentified person and suspect the woman was strangled.

The victim, identified as Jyoti Prakash Pawar, 55, lived alone after her husband's death and worked as a domestic help in the neighbourhood, police said.

According to police, Pawar's daughter, Ekta Jadhav, rushed to the house after finding her mother's phone switched off. On reaching the residence, she found the door locked from the outside and her mother's slippers lying outside.

Suspecting foul play, she bro...