Siliguri, June 26 -- A human skeleton was recovered on Thursday from the Pawan Nagar area of Champasari, Siliguri, following a joint operation by the Sikkim Police and Pradhannagar Police Station.

According to information received, Passang Doma Sherpa, a 55-year-old government school teacher from Namchi, Sikkim, had been missing for the past six months. Her son, Ashok Limbu, had filed a missing person's report with the Sikkim Police. As the family grew increasingly worried and began searching with the police, they received information that the missing woman had been living in a two-story house in Pawan Nagar, Champasari.

Earlier, when Ashok Limbu, accompanied by Sikkim Police, went to the area to search for his mother, they found the ho...