A body of an elderly man was found in a pond in a mutilated condition at Kanjiapala village under the Dhamnagar police limits in Bhadrak district on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Purnachandra Prusti. According to reports, he had gone to his farmland on Saturday night to guard vegetables cultivated by him. However, villagers spotted his body floating in the pond on Sunday morning.
Being informed by locals, police reached the village, recovered the body for postmortem and started an investigation. The man’s body bore multiple injury marks and bruises. Though the reason behind his death was yet to be ascertained, his family members alleged that he was murdered.