Jammu, Feb 16: Two individuals were discovered deceased in a secluded village in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, according to a police officer.
The bodies of Roshan Lal, 45, and Shamsher, 37, were recovered from the banks of a stream in the village of Batheri, reported Jitender Singh, the station house officer of Billawar police station.
Preliminary information suggests that the victims were strangled by unidentified individuals.
The precise cause of death will be determined following the postmortem examination, the officer mentioned, noting that an investigation has commenced with a murder case filed.
Official sources indicated that a terror link cannot be dismissed at this stage.
Last year, multiple areas in Kathua, including Billawar, experienced terror-related incidents, including an assault on an army patrol that resulted in the deaths of five soldiers.
