Skeletal remains found from unused Bansdroni pond

Skeletal remains of a person were found from a pond at Bansdroni in South Kolkata on Monday morning.

Police said that the owner of the pond, Pabitra Sarkar, resides in a house situated adjacent to the waterbody from where the skeletal remains were recovered.

Sarkar engaged some daily wage labourers to clean the pond. After removing hyacinth from the pond, the workers saw the skull in the pond as the level of water in the waterbody was too low.

The police were informed. Policemen from Bansdroni police station went to the spot and asked the workers to continue cleaning the pond suspecting that something more apart from the skull could be found. The water was pumped out from the pond following the order of the police and one after the other skeletal remains of other parts of a human body was recovered.

The police have also found a trouser with a belt around it and a pair of slippers in the pond.

The police are yet to ascertain whether the skeletal remains are of a man or of a woman. The skeletal remains and the recovered materials including the trousers were sent for forensic tests.

A police officer said that it seems that someone had killed the person and later dumped the body in the pond that had not been used for the past few years. The accused is well aware of the area as he knew that no one uses the pond and there could be no other better place to dump the body. It suggests that some local might have been behind the crime.

The police spoke to Sarkar to know whether anyone from the area had gone missing in the past few years.

The police also spoke to some local people to know if they had ever seen anyone moving around suspiciously.