MA student found dead with throat slit

Kolkata: Mystery shrouds the death of a 23-year-old MA

student

, the son of a former police officer whose body was found lying in a pool of

blood

with his

throat

slit in a posh apartment off BT Road at Khardah on the northern fringes of the city late on Saturday night. A blood stained knife was also recovered from the spot.

Police said, the victim identified as Shreyan Sen, the youngest son of Subrata Baran Sen, a retired traffic police officer was found lying in a pool of blood in a room of their second floor flat of Pratima apartment off BT Road at Khardah's Adarsha Pally. His throat was slit and a deep cut injury was also found in his wrist veins.

According to a local sources, Shreyan, an English MA second year student was very good in his study. "He was a very good student and meritorious. His elder brother Susmit is a law passed-out. Shreyan used to stay inside the house since the pandemic. We hardly found him outside their flat. We didn't hear anything wrong before his body was recovered from their flat around 11.30 pm. We can't understand how did such horrible incident occurred," said R.N Bose, a resident of the apartment. His family members couldn't be questioned as they were in a state of shock.

Police said they were investigating whether the victim committed

suicide

. "We have already initiated an unnatural death case. We are also waiting for the autopsy report to know the exact cause behind his death," a senior police officer of the Barrackpore commissionerate said.