Police are probing the death of a Penal pensioner, whose decomposing corpse was found inside his shack on Tuesday evening.The discovery of 66-year-old Sylvan Maharaj at his Batchiya Village home occurred around 4 pm when his friend Tony Jaggernaut went looking for him.
Jaggernaut told Penal police that on entering the yard, he got a foul stench and on checking inside the small wooden home, he found Maharaj lying faced up on a mattress.Cpl Jaglal and other officers from the Penal Police Station went to the house where Maharaj was seen wearing only a pair of boxer shorts.
Police said there were no visible marks of violence on his body but could not rule out foul play because of the body's state.It was taken to San Fernando mortuary where an autopsy is to be done.