Dhaka, May 12 -- Police have recovered the body of a businessman with his limbs tied and a cloth covering his face from a house in Old Dhaka's Bagdasa Lane.

Lalbagh Division of Police Deputy Commissioner (DC) Talebur Rahman gave information about the recovery in the Bangshal Police Station area on Tuesday.

The dead has been identified as 50-year-old Nesar Ali. He was a cloth trader.

Calling it a "murder", Talebur said: "The businessman lived alone in the one-room rented house."

Police are investigating it, he added.

Bangshal Police's Sub-Inspector (SI) Abdul Wahab said the man lived in a room on the first floor of a five-storey building.

The owner of the house, Mohammad Hossain Babu, saw the lights on inside his home around 1pm on T...