Bokaro police recovered the body of an illegal liquor trader Om Prakash Goswami near the forest located on the side of Jee- Pachora road under Harla police station area of Bokaro here on Monday.
It is being said that the deceased had left his house on Sunday with his bike, but he did not return home till late night. The relatives searched for him the whole night but could not find him.
Police sources said that Sonu Kumar, the brother of the deceased said that his brother, who left the house last evening and after a few hours his mobile phone started getting switched off.
In the early morning on Monday, when he went out in search of his brother, his Splendor Plus motorcycle was lying in the forest on the side of Pachaura road ahead of Vaastejee.
When the brother of the deceased reached near the bike, the blood-soaked dead body of the deceased was also lying at the same place.
Significantly, the murder of the deceased has been done by cutting his neck with a sharp weapon. There are also marks of stab wounds on the body of the deceased at many places. The police have taken the dead body in their custody and sent it for postmortem.
The deceased was associated with illegal liquor business who was last seen late in the evening in a taari shop near Vasteji on Sunday.
While Officer-in-charge Santosh Kumar said that the police are investigating the matter. The body is being taken into custody and sent for postmortem.