Police on Wednesday recovered the body of an unidentified man with his face burnt from a paddy field at village Ramchandrapur Bilpara in Bheramara upazila of Kushtia .
Local people spotted the body of the man, aged about 40, lying in the field in the morning and informed police.
Officer-in-charge Abdur Rob Talukder of Bheramara Police Station said that they recovered the body and sent it to Kushtia 250-bed general hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.
He said that miscreants might have dumped the body after killing him.
An investigation was underway to uncover the motive and identify those involved, he added.