A youth, who had gone missing since Tuesday, was found dead at a bush near Palunipada village under the Riamal police station in the district on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Manoj Mahanand of the village.
Locals spotted his body in a decomposed state in the morning and informed police about it. Cops recovered the body and sent it for postmortem.
Though the reason behind his death was yet to be ascertained, the circumstances under which the body was found indicated that he was murdered, police said.