<p>Gurugram: The body of a man with strangulation marks has been recovered from a drum floating in a drain here, police said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The body was found in the IMT Manesar area here on Saturday night after two workers of a plant spotted the drum and complained of foul smell emitting from it, they added.</p>.<p>It appeared that the man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was murdered by strangulation with an electric wire and his body was put in a drum and thrown into the drain, the police said.</p>.<p>A murder case has been lodged at the IMT Manesar police station, they added.</p>.ED initiates restitution of flats worth over Rs 20 cr to 'cheated' Gurugram homebuyers.<p>According to a complaint filed by Sohan Singh, security inspector of a Maruti Suzuki plant in IMT, two workers were pruning trees in the green belt near the drain on Saturday evening when they spotted a blue drum, which was emitting a foul smell.</p>.<p>On being informed, a police team along with a forensics and crime team reached the spot and took out the drum from the drain.</p>.<p>The police said they found the body of a man tied with a sari inside the drum. His throat was strangulated with an electric wire and nothing was found in his clothes or the drum that could help in his identification.</p>.<p>The man appeared to be in his late twenties, according to police.</p>.<p>Based on Singh's complaint, an FIR was registered against unknown persons under sections 103(1), 238(a) of the BNS at IMT Manesar police station on Saturday, they said.</p>.<p>Inspector Devender Singh, SHO of the police station, said, "Footage of nearby CCTV cameras is being explored and people nearby are being questioned. An FIR of murder has been registered and the matter is being investigated." </p><p>The postmortem of the body is yet to be conducted, he said. </p>
<p>Gurugram: The body of a man with strangulation marks has been recovered from a drum floating in a drain here, police said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The body was found in the IMT Manesar area here on Saturday night after two workers of a plant spotted the drum and complained of foul smell emitting from it, they added.</p>.<p>It appeared that the man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was murdered by strangulation with an electric wire and his body was put in a drum and thrown into the drain, the police said.</p>.<p>A murder case has been lodged at the IMT Manesar police station, they added.</p>.ED initiates restitution of flats worth over Rs 20 cr to 'cheated' Gurugram homebuyers.<p>According to a complaint filed by Sohan Singh, security inspector of a Maruti Suzuki plant in IMT, two workers were pruning trees in the green belt near the drain on Saturday evening when they spotted a blue drum, which was emitting a foul smell.</p>.<p>On being informed, a police team along with a forensics and crime team reached the spot and took out the drum from the drain.</p>.<p>The police said they found the body of a man tied with a sari inside the drum. His throat was strangulated with an electric wire and nothing was found in his clothes or the drum that could help in his identification.</p>.<p>The man appeared to be in his late twenties, according to police.</p>.<p>Based on Singh's complaint, an FIR was registered against unknown persons under sections 103(1), 238(a) of the BNS at IMT Manesar police station on Saturday, they said.</p>.<p>Inspector Devender Singh, SHO of the police station, said, "Footage of nearby CCTV cameras is being explored and people nearby are being questioned. An FIR of murder has been registered and the matter is being investigated." </p><p>The postmortem of the body is yet to be conducted, he said. </p>