India, Nov. 6 -- Police have launched an investigation into an incident in which some people allegedly left behind an unidentified woman's body with injury marks at a cremation ground near Loni Border late Wednesday evening, officials said on Thursday.

According to police, the victim is aged about 27 years and her body carried a critical injury mark between the right side of the face and back of the head. Upon visual examination, another mark was found on her neck.

Senior officials said the incident came to light after a driver of an earthmover spotted some people with the body that was kept on a pyre in the cremation ground, located near the Behta canal area, late evening.

"When the driver went closer, the people fled leaving the body...