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Promoter's Mysterious Death in Sonamukhi: Mud-Covered Body Found Hanging
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News18•03-10-2026, 16:14
Promoter's Mysterious Death in Sonamukhi: Mud-Covered Body Found Hanging
- •Promoter Uttam Chakraborty's hanging body recovered from a dumping ground in Adab Bazar, Sonamukhi.
- •Workers found the mud-covered body hanging from a boundary wall rod on Saturday morning.
- •Uttam Chakraborty, 60, had the contract for the dumping ground construction.
- •Family suspects murder, citing the body's mud-covered state, despite no suicide motive.
- •Police are investigating the death, awaiting post-mortem results to determine the cause.
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Uttam Chakraborty was a 60-year-old promoter who had taken the construction contract for a multi-crore dumping ground project in the Adab Bazar area of Sonamukhi municipal town.
Workers arriving at the dumping ground construction site on Saturday discovered his body covered in mud and hanging from a rod of the boundary wall.
The deceased's nephew, Soumen Chakraborty, stated that they found no reason for his uncle to commit suicide and suspected he was murdered because his entire body and face were covered in mud.
