# Woman’s body found under kitchen slab in Puri, son missing 2026-08-24T19:36:56+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Police in Puri, Odisha, have recovered the body of a woman buried under a freshly cemented slab in the kitchen of a rented house in Kumbharapada. The house owner alerted police after a foul smell emerged and the woman had not been seen for days. Her son, who lived with her, has been missing since yesterday, and his phone is switched off. The body has been sent for post-mortem, and a scientific team has collected samples. The son reportedly worked at a studio producing devotional songs on Lord Jagannath. Puri SP Prateek Singh confirmed a team has been formed and the investigation is underway. Police are trying to establish the woman's identity, the tenants had submitted no identity documents, and trace the missing son. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Times Now leads with the mystery angle, woman found dead, son missing, and quotes the house owner describing the son as caring and sober, which frames him as a possible victim. Odisha TV leads with the accusation: son murdered her and buried the body. That headline skips the ambiguity Times Now preserves. The OTV version is the stronger news judgement: the cement-plastered slab, the son fleeing, and the lack of identity documents all point away from accident. The missing-pieces framing in Times Now (unidentified woman, son unreachable) is faithful to the early stage of the probe but underplays how incriminating the known facts already are. Readers should follow the son's whereabouts and the post-mortem report, which will confirm cause of death. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 sensationalist - timesnownews.com (sensationalist) Leads with mystery and missing son, includes neighbour saying son was caring - odishatv.in (sensationalist) Headline directly accuses son of murder, frames as horror crime This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-25T03:41:30+00:00. Tags: Odisha, Prateek Singh, Puri, Times Now Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/womans-body-found-buried-under-kitchen-slab-in-puri-son-missing/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/womans-body-found-buried-under-kitchen-slab-in-puri-son-missing/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/