Police recovered the decomposed body of a man from a lake in the capital's Uttara area yesterday, two days after he went missing.

The victim was Riyadh Al Tariq, 30, who returned to Bangladesh from London after completing his graduation in hotel management about sixmonths ago.

Riyadh's father Afzal Hossain said his son remained missing since Thursday noon when he went out of their Khilgaon Tilpapara residence. He left the house for Uttara Sector No 3 to collect a Danish visa.

He was scheduled to fly to Denmark yesterday, he said.

Around 9:00pm on Thursday, the day he went missing, Riyadh called his mother over cellphone and informed that he got the visa, Afzal said.

He also told his mother that he was returning home, he said.

Riyadh's mother Rebecca Sultana could not reach him over the cellphone despite several tries as immediately afterwards the phone was found switched off, he added.

Later on Friday, the victim's family members filed a general diary (GD) with Khilgaon Police Station.

Police tracked the position of Riyadh's cellphone at Uttara Sector No 3. Around 9:00am, they came to know that a body was found in a lake in Uttara Sector No 5 area.

They went there and found that it was Riyadh's body.

Mahfuzur Rahman, sub-inspector at Uttara Paschim Police Station, said they suspect that the victim was murdered by some miscreants.

Police, however, could not recover the victim's cellphone till yesterday evening.

Police said they were looking into the incident from different aspects.

Riyadh's father filed a murder case in this connection.