Lucknow, Feb 24 (IANS) The blood-soaked body of a 32-year-old man has been recovered from the Kukrail river dam in Lucknow.The body bore injury marks on the neck, the police said.Inspector Sunil Kumar Singh of Ghazipur Police Station, said: "The deceased has been identified as Jitendra Singh, a resident of Safedabad in Barabanki district, who had come to Lucknow with his wife and two children to attend a relative's wedding on Wednesday. The victim was an e-rickshaw driver."Locals, who saw the body, informed the police, who sent it for a post-mortem examination.DCP (North) Qasim Abidi in a video statement, said" "A two-wheeler was also discovered parked near the body, which belonged to a relative of the deceased, Tinku Singh, who identified the deceased as his brother-in-law."Jitendra left on the bike saying he was going to meet someone, but he never returned."Further investigations are underway, he added.
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