A youth was found dead on a road in Hatsahi village, four km from here, on Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Prakash Sahu of Markandswar Sahui, had severe injury marks in the neck.
It was suspected that Prakash was stabbed on his neck to death with a sharp weapon. The Puri Sadar police with the help of a forensic team began investigation and sent the body for postmortem to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH).
No arrest had been made till filing of the story.