Panic prevailed in the area after a highly decomposed body was found during excavation work conducted by BMC at Janata quarters under Govindpura police station area on Friday.
According to the police, a decomposed body was found during the digging work on Friday at Janata quarters the labours informed the officials of BMC and subsequently the incident was reported to police. Acting on the information a police team reached the spot and started investigation.
The decomposed body was sent for the post mortem after the preliminary investigation.
City Superintendent of Police Shiv Dayal said that the BMC official Jaiprakash Khare informed the police regarding the body which was found at around 1.30 pm while digging work at Janta quarters.
In the initial investigation, police were not able to provide more information due to the decomposed condition of the body which is around two weeks' old. The deceased appeared to be a labourer in the age group of 35-40 years. Nothing which could help in establishing the identity of the deceased was found at the spot, he added.
The post mortem report is awaited which could help in ascertaining the reason behind the death and would further help in the investigation to find the deceased was killed or other reason of his death.
All the nearby police stations have been informed regarding the recovery of body and have been instructed to check the missing complaints in the past few weeks.
labours and contractors of the nearby construction sites would be contacted during the investigation. The circumstantial evidences suggest that the deceased was killed and to hide the murder the was buried.