The postmortem of slain gangster Siekh Hyder was carried out on Sunday by a three-member team in the Baleswar District Headquarters Hospital in the presence of Magistrates amid tight security.
As per the rules, the proceedings were video-graphed. Before the postmortem, the family members of the deceased were allowed to see the dead body. Later, the body was handed over by police to the family to be taken to Kendrapada for last rites.
"Four bullets were removed from Hyder’s body, informed Baleswar ADMO Sushant Nayak.Sources said a small pocket diary containing phone numbers and names was found in the pocket of Haider and seized by police.
Earlier on the day, a forensic team along with a Magistrate went to the site near Simulia where the encounter of Hyder had taken place on Saturday. The team seized two empty cartridges from the spot.
The probe into the incident was carried out in the presence of the Baleswar SDPO and the Simulia police station IIC.
Notably, the dreaded gangster, who was involved in more than 15 cases of murder, loot, extortion, tender-fixing and kidnapping in several districts of the State, succumbed to the gunshot wounds he received during the encounter.