DHAKA: Indian police said on Monday they had found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi.

The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name Rodick Andrew Reymond.

The body was found on Sunday morning at a market in the capital, a Delhi police spokesman said, The Straits Times publishes this report on Monday.

‘It is a murder. We found the body in a decomposed state,’ said spokesman Vijay Kumar.

BDST: 1815 HRS, APR 28, 2014