The Thiruttani police are verifying records of man missing complaints after a body was found floating in the lake of Pappireddypalli village on November 19 evening.
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A senior official of the Tiruvallur district police said the Thiruttani police were alerted by the Village Administrative Officer (VAO) Dillibabu of Amirthapuram village about a body found floating in the lake.
Based on the information, the police retrieved the body and sent it to Thiruttani Government Hospital for post-mortem. In the meantime, the police found the victim to be around 35-year-old man and have started verifying records of man missing complaints to identify the victim.
The police are waiting for the post-mortem report to find the cause of death and whether he had drowned or was murdered and dumped in the lake.