Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from Padma River at T-Dam area in the city on Thursday.
Locals spotted the decomposed body with its legs tied up in the river and informed police around 11 am.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Rajpara Police Station.
Police suspected that, miscreants might have killed the young man in another place and threw the body in the river three to four days ago.
The motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.
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