Berhampur: Police recovered the body of a youth inside the Radha-Krushna temple in Bada Bazaar area in Berhampur city on Thursday.
According to police, the body was found with the head crushed near the kitchen on the temple premises. Police also found two bricks near the body.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the assailant or assailants entered the temple after scaling the boundary wall on Wednesday night.
Local residents claimed that some youths regularly smoke ganja and charas on the temple premises late at night.