A body, identified as Tahir Ahmed from Karimganj district in Assam, was found near a stream about six kilometres from Aizawl yesterday, Mizoram police said.
Police said that Ahmed (23) was a passenger vehicle driver and the suspected murderer, also a non-tribal, was believed to have absconded to Silchar in Assam's Cachar district.
A police team went there.
An autopsy was performed at the Civil Hospital here today on the highly decomposed body.
