A mutilated body of a 26-year-old man was found lying at Kudada under suburban Sundarnagar police station area, this morning. The body was later identified as that of Tapan Gope, a resident of Nandup in Sundarnaar.
The police confirmed it to be a case of murder as the victim had marks of severe injuries all over his body. The police recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for a post-mortem this afternoon.
Officer-in-charge, Sundarnagar police station Dilip Yadav said that the victim had a criminal record and had been to jail for several times on being involved in extortion, assault and in cases registered under Arms Act.
"After the initial probe we suspect the victim was murdered on being stabbed and also being hit by iron rods by a group of unknown assailants. We have taken statement from the victim's mother Sukurmuni Gope and trying to detect the assailants," said the officer-in-charge.
In this connection, the police have registered a case of abduction and murder against seven persons on the statement made by Sukurmuni today.
The bereaved elderly woman said that her son had married thrice, but all the three wives deserted her one after another and finally he left the world for all. According to a relative, Tapan had married three girls in the interval of five years and had become a father of two children from as many wives.