Decomposed body of student found hanging from roadside tree in Kalahandi

BHAWANIPATNA: Mystery shrouds the death of a missing engineering student whose decomposed body was found hanging from a roadside tree at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district on Sunday evening.

Police identified the deceased as 21-year-old Laxminarayan Majhi of Kamegaon in Narla block. A first-year student of a private engineering college, Majhi was missing since December 8.

Sources said locals first spotted the student’s highly-decomposed body hanging from a tree near a dumping yard. On being informed, Bhawanipatna Sadar police reached the spot and seized the body.

On Monday, scientific team visited the spot for investigation and recovered a school bag and a bicycle lying nearby. Majhi was identified from a notebook inside the bag which had his name written on it.