IIT-M guard found dead in pond
A guard working at IIT-Madras was on Monday found dead in a pond with his hands and legs tied.
The body was highly decomposed and the police has said that the guard, a native of Assam, could have died at least a week ago. The guard had gone missing on June 3.
The police has not ruled out the possibility of the guard, 35-year-old Abdul Kalak, having been murdered by his roommates — all of them guards — because some of them were missing on Monday morning and their mobile phones were also switched off.
“Some people staying with him in Velachery were missing in the morning and we thought that they could have murdered him after a squabble and left his body in the pond. So far, only two of them have turned up,” the police said.
“As many as five men were staying with him and we questioned the men who were present. We have registered a case of unnatural death and not murder as of now. Special teams have been formed to hunt down the missing roommates,” said police.
Kalak was recruited by a Hyderabad-based security agency to work on the IIT-Madras campus, where he was working for the last six months. He was staying in a rented room in Velachery with his colleagues.
Senior police officials said that it seemed to be a case of murder. “We are looking for more evidence to ascertain whether or not it is a case of murder,” an official said. “The cause of death can be known only after we get the post mortem report,” said the official.
There are as many as 150 private guards employed at the IIT campus. The victim was deployed at the Mahanadi hostel and the nearby parking lot.
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