The dead body of a young girl, without clothes, was found near a railway track in the town of Bathinda in Punjab, the police said on Wednesday.

The body was beheaded and thrown under a bridge near the railway track in Bathinda’s Sheesh Mahal Colony, the police said.

“We have started the investigation. The case will be solved soon,” police officer Tarjinder Singh said.

The police have registered a case and started the investigation.