A man known to the police was found dead in some bushes on the roadside in Couva on Thursday.
The victim, Vishal Singh of Waterloo Road, Carapichaima, was found with both hands tied as well as a wound to the head.
Police said he was out on bail charged with kidnapping and other offences, and as a condition of the bond, the court had ordered that he wear an ankle bracelet.
Initial police reports said at around 9.30 am on Thursday, police from the Electronic Monitoring Unit arrived at the Couva Police Station, having lost the signal from Singh’s device.
They went to the last known area where the signal was lost where they found Singh’s body.
Homicide Bureau of Investigations (Region III) police were alerted and officers visited the scene and gathered evidence.