Police recovered the throat-slit body of a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver from Ugrogarh village in Sadar upazila of Pabna on early Saturday.

The deceased is Manirul Islam alias Batul, believed to be 22, a resident of Kumulli village of the upazila.

Quoting locals, police said Batul went out of his garage with the auto on Friday evening and did not return home, reports UNB.

Locals noticed the body of Batul lying on a road in the area in the morning.

Later, police recovered the body and sent it to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Batul might have been killed by miscreants during their bid to snatch his auto-rickshaw in the dead of night, said Ataikula Police Station officer-in-charge Abdur Razzak.

A case was filed in this connection.