PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 11 -- A 27-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in a forest in Pratapgarh's Kunda area on Monday, days after allegedly assaulting a woman he had been living with in Lucknow. The deceased's identity, a resident of Ishwariganj village in the Barabanki district, was established through an Aadhaar card recovered from his belongings. According to police, shepherds spotted the body in the forest of Shekhpur Ashiq village on Monday afternoon and alerted a local resident, who then notified authorities. Police recovered several personal items from the scene, including a mobile phone, cash, clothing and food and liquor packets. The body was found hanging with a white cloth towel (gamchha), and police sent it for a postmortem examination to determine the exact cause of death. Family members, who identified the body at the scene, stated that the deceased had been estranged from his father due to his past behavior and had been living with a woman in Lucknow. According to the family, a dispute occurred between the couple on November 7, after which the man allegedly assaulted the woman. The woman subsequently filed a police complaint, and he reportedly fled Lucknow after learning of the action taken against him. Kunda police station SHO Arvind Kumar Singh confirmed that the investigation is ongoing to determine whether the death was a suicide or a homicide....