Police on Saturday started a murder case against “unknown” after the preliminary post-mortem report of a middle-aged man’s body revealed he had multiple injury marks.
Rup Kumar Saha, in his late thirties, was found dead and floating around Nather Bagan Ghat along the Hooghly on Strand Bank Road on Friday.
Officers of the North Port police station found a driving licence and some documents on the deceased man.
Saha’s family was informed. A resident of Baranagar in the city’s north, Saha was missing since Thursday, his family members have the told police.
They tried looking for him but could not find him. His mobile phone remained unreachable, the family told the police.
“Preliminary post-mortem report revealed there were several injuries on the deceased’s body,” said an officer of North Port police station.
“It could be that Rup Kumar Saha was beaten up and then pushed into the river. We have started a murder case against an unknown person,” he said.
Saha worked for a company that is into real estate, the police said.
Explosion kills ‘bomb maker’
Behrampore/Cooch Behar: A bomb blast at a village in Murshidabad killed a youth on Saturday.
Sources said on Saturday morning, a blast took place in a jute field in Majjampur-Baganpara under Beldanga police station. Villagers found a severely injured person at the blast site with at least 50 socket bombs strewn around him.
Injured Alim Sheikh, 30, was rushed to the Beldanga block hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
“Alim Sheikh lived in Kapasdanga, around 8km away from the village where the blast occurred. He was known for his expertise in making crude bombs,” said Safiujjaman Sheikh, a former MLA and a Congress leader of Beldanga.
A police team rushed to the spot.
Residents suspected two-three others were making socket bombs at the spot with Alim, but they managed to escape.
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