A human skeleton was from near Church More at Gaganga tea garden adjacent to Bagdogra near here today which created a flutter among the locals, police said.
An Aadhaar card and a watch was found along with the skeleton, the police said.
The Aadhaar card was that of a person named Ajit Kumar Bhattacharya, a resident of Tumba Hold area of Matigara in Siliguri, the police said adding the man went missing a year ago.
A local spotted a human bone sticking out of sand near the river there. When he removed the sand, he found the skeleton.
On receiving news about the finding of a skeleton, Bagdogra police reached the area and sent it for post mortem in North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.
Investigation into the incident is on, the police said.
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