India, April 15 -- The body of a Maharashtra-based scrap dealer, kidnapped from Bihar on April 11, was found in National Highway-33 near Ghosi police station, officials said on Tuesday.

According to Jehanabad SP Arvind Pratap Singh, the Ghosi police had on April12 morning found an unidentified body having multiple injury marks.

"The body was preserved in mortuary for 72 hours for identification after the postmortem. Hours before a police team of airport police station (Patna) arrived and informed that the body was of Laxman Sadhu Sinde, who was abducted from Patna on April 11," said the SP, adding that incident is being jointly investigated by Patna, Nalanda and Jehanabad police.

Singh told HT that the police handed over the body to Pa...