India, Jan. 8 -- A skeleton, suspected to be of a 30-year-old woman who went missing nearly a month ago, was recovered from a mustard field in the Nagram area of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Wednesday morning, officials said.

The highly decomposed and mutilated corpse made it difficult for authorities to identify the deceased. However, a senior official stated that a sari found at the site helped identify the woman as Poonam, wife of Pitambar.

An official police statement said that the mustard field at Kubehra village, from where the remains were found, is located "barely 300 metres from the woman's house", HT reported earlier.

Nagram station officer Vivek Kr Chaudhary said that a villager, Chandraprakash, discovered the skeletal remains...