Kataka: A 15-year-old boy was found dead near the Mahanadi River, close to the lower Bali Jatra ground in Kataka, Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Sumant Kumar Sahu alias Munu, son of a mason and a native of Banki in Kataka district.
He was living in a rented house with his family members in the Raja Bagicha area under Badambadi police limits of the city.
The victim, a student of Class X was studying in a school in the Balu Bazar area of the city.
His body, bearing multiple injury marks, was recovered after a group of people who had gone to bathe in the river spotted it around 11am Sunday.
They alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and launched an investigation into the incident. Cantonment police recovered the body and registered a murder case.
Police have informed the victim’s family members and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the killing.
Kataka Deputy Commissioner of Police Rishikesh Dnyandeo Khilari, along with Cantonment police personnel, a scientific team and a sniffer dog squad, visited the crime scene to gather evidence.