Dumka
Tension gripped Dumka, the sub-capital of Jharkhand, on Thursday after a madrasa teacher was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a hotel room within the Nagar police station limits of the city, officials said. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Sadiq Hussain Ansari, a resident of Sakrikitta Rampur under Boarijor police station in neighbouring Godda district. He was employed as a teacher at a madrasa in the district. According to police, Ansari had checked into a hotel near Dumka’s Dudhani Tower Chowk along with a woman. The incident came to light on Thursday morning when hotel staff alerted the police after finding him unconscious in the room.