AT about 11:45hrs on Saturday, the Police Operations Room received an anonymous call informing of a body found in a swamp area at Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice.
A team of Police ranks visited the area at about 12:15hrs, where a decomposed body was found (in Stage Three of decomposition) in a swamp with thick vegetation.
The scene was processed, documented and photographed by detectives, Police Headquarters reported.

The deceased was positively identified as Dharmindra Sarabjit, a 57-year-old Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) worker of Caracas, Vryheid Village, by his 32-year-old daughter, Amrita Mahadeo.
Enquiries revealed that Sarabjit was a regular consumer of alcohol, and at about 07:00hrs on June 17, he left home to go by a female friend but failed to return home.

On June 19, at about 08:30hrs, Mahadeo went to the Central Police Station and made a ‘missing person’ report for her father, after conducting numerous searches for him without success.
The decomposed body is at the Bailey’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination. Investigations are ongoing.