The dead is Ainal Huq Mollah, 55, caretaker of a piece of land in Adabor. The injured Mosharraf Hossain, 55, is now receiving treatment at Shaheed Suhrawardi Hospital.

Jalal Miah, brother-in-law of Ainal, told The Daily Star that Ainal received a cellphone call Saturday night and went outside the house with his friend Mosharraf. Both were missing since then.

Yesterday morning, locals found Ainal's body lying on an empty housing-plot near the Flood Control Embankment in Mohammadpur. Mosharraf was also found lying unconscious near the wall of a house. Both had marks of beating on their body.

Police, recovering the two, sent Mosharraf to hospital and the body to Dhaka Medical College Morgue for an autopsy.

Morgue sources said there were marks of injury around Ainal's neck which indicate that he was strangled to death. Police also found a rope, which they suspect Ainal was strangled with.