A lady teacher from Haryana working with a local central school was allegedly murdered here, police said.

Kiran Rane's body was found in an under-construction building of Khannaudha school in the town yesterday, police said here today.

Rane (30), a primary teacher in Karaudiya Central School and a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, was missing since Saturday night when she went out of her house to receive a call on her cell phone.

She was posted here a couple of months ago and living in a rented house at Karaudiya with her colleague, Lata Rane, police said.

Police suspect that she was murdered and efforts were on to trace her cell phone.