Police recovered a mutilated body of a youth from near a canal at Narayanpur under the K Nuagaon police station in Ganjam district on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Milan Sahu, a resident of Deuliapada village of Chandapur panchayat under Chikiti block in the district.
Locals spotted Milan’s body and informed police, following which K Nuagaon police along with a forensic team reached the spot and began a probe. The body was sent to the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Brahmapur for postmortem.
Milan’s body was found with deep injuries in his head and face probably caused by a blunt object. His family members said to the police that they last spoke to him over the phone at around 10 pm on Saturday, but after some time he was not reachable.
Preliminary investigation and circumstantial evidence pointed to a pre-planned murder, K Nuagaon IIC Kishore Kumar Samal said,
