The body of Dhanraj Mahto (37), a local youth of Bengabad in Giridih, who went missing on April 23 was recovered from paisratard river on Thursday evening. Bengabad police said the body was recovered around 6pm by a group of people and police personnel who intensified their search operation when the earlier searches failed to trace him .
The body was entangled in the bushes on the side of the river near Paisratard ,nearly four kilometres away from his house at Bangari village within limits of Bengabad police station ,said local reports Jagarnath Mahto .
It was around 4 pm on Monday that Dhanraj Mahto ,a local auto rickshaw driver in Bangari village in Giridih ,mysteriously disappeared after he came home from the local Giridih town .His family members said Dhanraj had just stepped out of the house in the evening .When the local residents searched for him in the vicinity including nearby forest areas ,which led to the speculations that probably he was kidnapped.
When the search operation for four days failed to get any whereabouts of the missing youth ,the speculation about possible kidnap gained strength ,but the local poli8ce ruled out such a possibility .
Police sources said the prima facie ,it appears that he could be murdered by someone and dumped his body in the Pesratard river, while an investigation was on in the incident ,police added .
A section of the busy Bengabad-Chatro road has been blocked after placing dead body on the road by an angry villager protesting an incident early this morning and the agitation has been called off after the local authorities assured them that it would take up possible compensation of kin’s family.