Mystery shrouded the death of a teacher, who was found hanging from the ceiling of a rented house at Manikanagar under the Hinjilicut police limits in Ganjam district on Thursday.
The deceased Rajendra Kumar Bhuyan belonged to Bhadrak district. He was a Physics teacher of the Kankarada Science College in Ganjam.
Reports said Bhuyan was staying in the rented house for the last 20 days. But the door of the house had been shut for the 15 days. On Thursday morning when the house owner complained of stench from the house, police reached the spot and broke open the door and seized the body and sent it to hospital for postmortem.
While the exact reason of the death was yet to be ascertained, police began an investigation into the incident.