While investigating the case related to recovery of an unidentified man’s body from ISBT area, police officials have reached to the conclusion that the deceased was murdered. Police have registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the IPC in the incident.
Panic had prevailed in the ISBT area after a man’s body, within the age group of 20-25 years, was found on Monday aftrenoon. In the initial investigation, police were not able to establish the identity of the deceased.
Police said that efforts are on for establishing the identity of the deceased by circulating the photograph of the deceased to all the police stations and nearby districts. Besides a missing person complaint’ from all the places are also being searched.
During the investigation, it was found that the spot where the body was found was near to ISBT bus stand which increases the chances that the deceased did not belong to the city and arrived in the city from somewhere else or was brought to the city and later, he was killed.
Police are also working on the other possibility of the deceased being brought to the liquor shop at Chetak bridge and later killed, said the police. The body was swollen which made the identification difficult.
Nothing which could help in establishing the identity of the deceased was found from the body. In the initial investigation, it was found that the deceased was killed around two weeks ago.
After preliminary investigation, the police registered a case under Section 174 of the CrPC and later after the post-mortem report was received a case under Section 302 of the IPC was registered on Tuesday.