Bathinda, May 21 -- Two months after the body of a 19-year-old college student was retrieved from a canal near her hometown (Maur) in Bathinda, investigators say there is no clinching evidence to prove it was a murder or that the victim was subjected to sexual abuse. The police are yet to submit a chargesheet in the court. Officials familiar with the probe said on Tuesday that there were digital evidences that the victim boarded a private bus in Chandigarh after leaving her college hostel to reach Maur on March 9.

"The probe is almost complete and a special investigation team (SIT) is relying upon the chemical analysis that did not mention rape. The forensic probe has not found any injury mark on the body, ruling out that she may have st...