Saloon owner’s throat-slit body recovered in Meherpur

Police recovered the body of a saloon owner with the throat slashed from a mango orchard at Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Sunday morning.The deceased identified as Paresh Das, 40, a resident of Chuadanga district and son-in-law of Kartik Das of Ballabhpur village of the upazila was proprietor of a hair salon in the area.Police said local people spotted the body of Paresh, with the throat slit, lying in a mango orchard of one Badal Mondal at the village at about 7:00 am and informed police.Later, police recovered the body and sent it to Meherpur General Hospital morgue for an autopsy.Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Mujibnagar Police Station, said Paresh might have been killed at some time on Saturday night over previous enmity.A case was filed in this connection. -UNB, Meherpur