India, Aug. 31 -- The severed head of a woman was found in a drain in Maharashtra's Thane district on Sunday, after which police registered a case of murder against unidentified persons. The head was sent to the hospital for examination, along with the metal jewellery found with it.

On Saturday, some passersby spotted the chopped head of an unidentified woman, around the age of 25-30 years, lying in the drain near a slaughterhouse on Idgah Road in Thane's Bhiwandi area around 11:30 am, news agency PTI reported

After that, they alerted the police, who reached the spot and found the severed head with metal jewellery in the nose and ears. The head, along with the jewellery, was sent to the hospital for further examination, an official from...