The body of Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a Chhatra League general secretary, has been officially recovered by police in India's Meghalaya, reports bdnews24.com.
Meghalaya police said the decomposing body was found at a betel nut plantation in Dona Bhoi village in the East Jaintia Hills area on Aug 26, according to a report from Indian media outlet NDTV.
The area is 1.5 km from the India- Bangladesh border.
Police sources told NDTV that the postmortem report said Panna died because of strangulation -- "the cause of the death is asphyxia caused by throttling".
There were also multiple injuries on the body, including lacerations, abrasions, and bruises "which could indicate a struggle by the victim," the report added.
United News of India, another media outlet, wrote that Panna's family claimed he had nearly $20 million on him. However, Giri Prasad, chief of East Jaintia Hills District Police, says the body did not have any cash on it.
"We do not have any information on the money. When we recovered the body, the only things in his possession were a Bangladeshi passport and a smartwatch."
Panna's body is currently at the Khliehriat Civil Hospital morgue.
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