Confusion over the identity of a decomposed body found in a marshy land near Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) premises near Kalamassery prevails as preliminary investigations could not confirm if the body was that of missing Bengaluru resident Suraj Lama.
The police are awaiting results of DNA tests to ascertain the identity of the deceased, while the post-mortem examination could not confirm the cause of death. The primary round of autopsy has not found any injury or fractures on the decomposed body, police sources said. “We have been told that more examinations will have to be conducted as the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition with mostly skeleton remaining,” an officer with the Kalamassery police said. The police have registered a case of unnatural death following the recovery of the body.
Santon Lama, the son of Mr. Lama, could not confirm if the remains were those of his father.
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