Pratapgarh (UP), The body of a village head with his throat slit was recovered from a car parked in a mango orchard here on Friday. An officer gave this information.

Kunda Area Officer (CO) Ajit Singh said that the blood-stained body of Karunesh Kumar (34), head of Dihwa Jalalpur village of Maheshganj police station area, was found inside the car. The CO said that people informed the police after seeing the dead body in the car.

Police reached the spot and took the blood stained body to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Police have sent the body for postmortem and started investigating the case.