A 57-year-old woman was found murdered in the office of a credit cooperative in Palghar on Saturday night. Victim Sadhna Chaudhary was the secretary there, said the police, who are yet to establish the motive for the crime.

The murder came to light after Chaudhary did not return home from ‘Shree Ashtavinayak Patpedhi’ at Om Shanti Devi Apartment in Shukla Compound. Her housemates called on her phone but did not get any response. They then asked a person who lives in front of the patpedhi office to check on her.