Chhatra League leader Panna found dead in Meghalaya

The body of former Chhatra League general secretary Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, has been recovered from in India’s Meghalaya, said police.

In a press release, Meghalaya police on Thursday said the semi-decomposed body was found inside a betel-nut plantation in East Jaintia Hills' Dona Bhoi village on August 26. The area is 1.5 km from the India- Bangladesh border.

Quoting police, NDTV said the body was identified by the passport he was carrying.

The postmortem report said he died because of strangulation -- "the cause of the death is asphyxia caused by throttling". The body has been sent for forensic analysis.

United News of India, another media outlet, wrote that Panna’s family claimed he had nearly $20 million on him. However, Giri Prasad, chief of East Jaintia Hills District Police, says the body did not have any cash on it.

Panna’s body is currently at the Khliehriat Civil Hospital morgue._Agencies.