New Delhi, June 27 -- A decomposed body of a 40-year-old man was found stuffed inside a blue drum in Ludhiana's Sherpur area on Wednesday morning when ragpickers saw a strong foul smell coming from an abandoned drum placed in a vacant plot, in a chilling echo of the Meerut murder case.

The Division Number 6 police visited spot and stated he was wrapped in a bedsheet, enclosed in a plastic gunny sack, with his neck and legs tightly bound with rope, according to a News18 report.

This comes after sensational Meerut murder case where a former merchant navy officer was allegedly stabbed to death, his body chopped and put in similar drum earlier this year.

"The deceased appears to be a migrant based on facial features. There are no visible i...