Deputy Director of Nuapada District Veterinary Hospital Nayan Singh Majhi (55) was found dead on a railway track near Parasakhola village under Nuapada Sadar block on Thursday.
According to family sources, Majhi had gone to a nearby banana farm on Wednesday evening but didn’t return home in the night.
His relatives searched for him at various places on Thursday morning and found his body in a severed condition on the railway track near the banana farm. Government Railway Police (GRP) and Nuapada Town police recovered the body for postmortem and later handed it over to his family members.
Police have started investigation to ascertain the circumstances under which the veterinarian died.