A family checking into a Kolkata hotel discovered a decomposed body hidden in a storage bed after complaining of a pungent smell. The victim, identified as 26-year-old Rahul Lal, had checked in with two other men who later left. Preliminary reports indicate strangulation as the cause of death.
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