Body found in under-construction building

Ponda said: “Initially,I thought that the stink is either coming from the garbage that is regularly dumped by the table fan manufacturing unit on the first floor or a rat must have died there. On Wednesday evening,when the smell became stronger,I went to sprinkle some bleaching powder and I tried to see the source of the foul smell. In the low light of my cell phone,I saw something that looked like a dead body.”

However,when Ponda told this to the locals sitting there they said that it might be the body of a dog. Ponda finally spotted the body on Thursday morning.

According to the police,the body had been there for at least 48 hours. It had marks of a deep head injury.

Ujjwal Ghosh,a local resident,said that on August 17,the day before the Assembly by-polls,a group of Trinamool Congress supporters had gathered in the building and had a feast there.

“They took permission from the owner.They left the spot late at night and I was not present there since my duty is from 7 am to 9 pm,” said Ponda.

At present,the police have ruled out the possibility of foul play. “According to the initial postmortem report,death was caused by a fall from height. Investigation is on. Nobody has claimed the body till now,” said Jawed Shamim,Joint Commissioner (Headquarters) of Kolkata Police.

No progress in scientist’s death case
The police have made no headway in the case involving the death of Dalia Nayek (35),a senior scientist from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics who died after consuming mercuric chloride in her flat in the Meghnad Saha housing complex near the institute on Wednesday.

Though the police had informed her family in Ausgram near Asansol in Burwan,no one had claimed the body till Thursday morning. In the afternoon,Nayek’s body was taken away by her friends and colleagues. “No complaint has been lodged with the police yet,” said Debobrata Das,additional SP,North 24-Parganas.