One Krushna Chandra Sahu (31) of Dhanakuti Sahi under the Town police station was found brutally murdered on Friday morning near the Shree Jagannath Temple here.
His family members lodged a complaint with the police that he had been called by some of his friends for a feast late on Thursday evening while his body was found on Friday.
Police registered a case of murder and sent the body for postmortem to the District Headquarters Hospital here while investigation was on, said the investigating police officer.