A dead body of a transgender person was found along the highway connecting Bhubaneswar and Puri in Odisha, according to police on Monday.
The person was found lying in a pool of blood near Uttara Chowk on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Sunday evening, a police official said.
Soumyendu Sekhar Tripathy, Inspector-in-Charge of Pipili Police Station, said they received the information about the incident at around 8.30 PM.
“The person was immediately taken to Capital Hospital, and later declared dead there. Acting on a complaint, we registered a murder case,” said Tripathy.
The body has been sent for post-mortem examination and a thorough investigation has been launched, police said.
In the wake of the incident, a group from the transgender community staged a protest by blocking the road in front of Capital Hospital, demanding the immediate arrest of the perpetrators and 10 lakh in compensation for the family of the deceased.
