locals spotted a man’s body wrapped in a bed-sheet in a nullah here on Sunday morning. It was suspected that the yet-to-be-identified man in his 40s was murdered and his body was dumped in the water body.
The body was found near the Govt ITI at Penthakata under the Sea Beach police station limits.
An ASI of Police, Debadutta Pradhan found people gathering nearing the nullah. He saw the body and alerted the local police station, following which the body was sent to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for postmortem.