A man’s decomposed body was recovered from an apartment at Ghatikia under the Khandagiri police station here on Wednesday evening.
After foul smell spread from a flat in the apartment, neighbours informed police.
As the main door of the flat was found to be locked from inside, police broke it open and recovered the body.
The deceased was identified as Bhagabat Prasad Rath from Sunabeda in Koraput district. He was working as a faculty member at the CET here.A neighbour said the flat had been locked from inside for past four days.
Circumstantial evidences show the deceased was murdered. But only after postmortem, it would be ascertained whether he was murdered or he committed suicide, a police official said.