The body of a college teacher with minor head injuries was recovered from the rented home of the deceased in Burdwan on Wednesday morning.

Police sources said Akhtar Hasinur Rahaman, 40, used to teach geography at Maharajadhiraj Uday Chand Women’s College in Burdwan. He got married for the second time in June last year and started to stay at a rented house in the Krishnapur area of Burdwan town.

Mujibar Rahaman, father of the deceased teacher, said his daughter-in-law informed him over the phone on Wednesday morning that Hasinur had slumped to the ground and died due to a heart attack.

“After we rushed to our son’s rented home, we found his body lying in a pool of blood on the floor and my daughter-in-law was missing. I tried to communicate with her over phone but her mobile phone was switched off,” said Mujibar, a farmer in Birbhum’s Ekdalia village.

Mujibar has lodged a murder complaint against his daughter-in-law at Burdwan police station. A police officer said based on the complaint the police have started a probe against the teacher’s wife.

Asked whether it was a case of murder, the police officer said they were waiting for the post-mortem report.

“There were minor injuries on the body and those are unlikely to be the cause of anyone’s death. However, we are waiting for the post-mortem report,” he said.

Villagers said Hasinur was a bright student and had cleared the College Service Commission a decade ago to join the college as a teacher.