Decomposed male body found in canal

Kolkata: A decomposed male body was found in the Pragati Maidan police station area on Thursday morning.

Locals saw the body in a canal and informed police accordingly. Later, the sleuths fished out the body from the canal and sent it to NRS Medical College Hospital

for autopsy.

According to locals, on Thursday morning, they got a foul smell coming from the canal side in the

Khanaberia area.

Primarily, people assumed that someone must have dumped animal carcass.

However, after a few hours when some locals went there to check the source of the smell, they stumbled upon a human body floating in the water.

Pragati Maidan police station was informed. Later, police fished out the body from the canal. According to sources, it is suspected that the person is about 35 years of age and had died at least 4-5 days ago. He was wearing a pair of jeans and a jacket.

The sleuths also suspect that the body might have been reached the said area by means of floating as no missing complaint was lodged at Pragati Maidan police station.

No one from the locality has identified the body.

It is still not clear whether the person has been murdered as the body was recovered in a decomposed state.

Thus, injury marks if any on the body have become hard to identify.

The sleuths have found a bottle of alcohol from the pocket of the jeans.

According to sources, the police suspect that person might have fallen in the canal in a drunken state. To ascertain the actual cause of death, the sleuths are waiting for the autopsy report.