India, Aug. 11 -- The family of a 26-year-old migrant worker from Falakata in Bengal's Alipurduar district whose body was found last week in Kerala's Malappuram, has demanded a probe adding that the person was murdered.

The deceased, Abul Hossain, left for Thrissur district on July 27 to work as a painter for a contractor. His mutilated body was found on the night of August 8 inside a forest in Malappuram district.

"On August 9, an officer from the Kottakkal police station called us up and said Abul's mutilated and decomposed body was found in a forest in Malappuram which is more than 70km away from where he was living. The officer said he was murdered. We demand an investigation," Aminul Haque, the uncle of the deceased, told media per...