Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Jan 5: The Ullal police registered a case of murder after an unidentified male body was found floating in the sea at Kotepura here on Tuesday January 3.
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The body was highly decomposed with injuries all over it. Moreover, the legs and hands were tied.
The dead man might have been aged around 40-45.
It is suspected that he might have been murdered somewhere else about a week ago and his body thrown into the sea with his hands and legs tied. The body was half naked.
The Ullal police sent the body to a hospital in Deralakatte for post-mortem.
ACP Kalyan Shetty, Ullal SI Bharati and other police personnel visited the spot and registered a murder case.