A 60-year-old security guard was brutally murdered by unidentified miscreants in the MANIT campus on Friday afternoon. The police have detained six suspects and started search for an absconding accused.
SHO of Kamla Nagar Ashish Bhattacharya said that miscreants entered the MANIT campus to take away goods behind hostel number 9 from an under-construction building and when they were trying to escape with the goods, security guards were alerted and they tried to nab the miscreants during which miscreants tried to escape the campus but the deceased braved to stop them and was pushed by the miscreants and sustained injuries.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.
The deceased was identified as Girja lal Mishra used to work at the mess of MANIT campus.
Police have claimed that no visible injury marks have been found over the body. In the short post mortem report it was found that the decease died of cardiac arrest.
Till the filing of the report the police have detained six suspects and further investigations have been started.
The body was sent for the post mortem after the preliminary investigation was conducted. The police have registered a case under section 454, 380, 304 and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation.