A 34-year-old man has been found dead in Maharashtra's <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/palghar-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Palghar district</a> and police suspect it to be a case of murder, an official said on Wednesday.
A passer-by spotted the body of the victim, identified as Sunil Tiwari, at an isolated place in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/maharashtra-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Valiv area</a> on Tuesday evening and alerted police, he said.
The police rushed to the spot and sent the body to a government hospital for post-mortem, the official from Valiv police station said.
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The victim had been strangulated to death by some unidentified persons and the body dumped at the isolated place, he said.
The police were conducting a probe to ascertain the motive behind the murder, the official said.
A case was registered against unidentified persons under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence), he added.&nbsp;
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A passer-by spotted the body of the victim, identified as Sunil Tiwari, at an isolated place in Valiv area on Tuesday evening and alerted police

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