India, March 2 -- A 23-year-old woman's decomposed body was found in the service lane near Noida's Sector 129 next to the Greater Noida Expressway on Monday morning, police said, adding that the body was sent for post-mortem.

Police said a Permanent Account Number (PAN) card helped identify the woman. "On Monday, around 7.30am, when a sanitation worker was cleaning the single-lane service road between Sector 129 mall and Noida Expressway, the body was spotted lying in the bushes," said a police officer, who is part of the investigation.

"As we received information on the emergency helpline number 112, a team from the Expressway police rushed to the spot and secured the crime scene."

Assistant police commissioner Rakesh Pratap Singh sai...