The body of a 45-year-old man was found lying on the bank of Subernarekha River along Sonari-Kadma marine drive under Sonari police station area on Sunday morning. Police have recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem. Police suspected it to be a case of drowning.According to sources, a police party from the Sonari police station arrived at the scene and recovered it. As it was not identified, the police kept the body on the marine drive for about an hour so as to get it identified and subsequently shifted it to the medical college mortuary for post-mortem.
Officer-in-charge, Sonari police station, Binod Kumar Paswan said from the condition of the body it appears that the man has died in the night.“We are investigating the case. We have, therefore, sent the body to the medical college mortuary for a post-mortem so that if the cause of death will be known to us only after an autopsy," he said.The officer-in-charge said that they have now registered a case of mishap. He pointed out if the post-mortem report suggest it to be a case of murder, then they would change the case accordingly.