A mutilated body of a 24-year-old girl was found on a street outside a hotel at Sadar area here, police said today.
The deceased was identified as Farzana alias Lado Shabbo, they said.
Her head was crushed by stones by unidentified miscreants, they said, adding the body was found wrapped in a blanket yesterday and was sent for post-mortem.
The victim was a resident of Nahari-ka-Naka, a muslim dominated area, and her parents had separated her from family allegedly due to her "bad character", they said.
Reason behind the murder was yet to be ascertained, they added.
Whether she was raped before her murder, would be known only after the post-mortem, SHO-Sadar Police station Rinmal Singh said.
