Ghaziabad police have detained four men accused of dumping the body of a 38-year-old ragpicker in a vacant plot in Tronica City after allegedly hitting him with a car in Delhi’s Sonia Vihar early Tuesday, officers said on Wednesday.
Detailed inspection of CCTVs also revealed that two men, one driving and one riding a pillion, placed the body in between them and came to the plot to dump the body. The accused allegedly transported the body to Ghaziabad on a scooter after returning the car to the car-washing centre where one of them worked. The police, with the help of its registration number, reached the four suspects. The SUV was also of a customer. “Taking cognizance, the police have registered an FIR at the Tronica City police station. We are also taking legal advice, as the incident of the accident happened in Delhi and the body was dumped in Ghaziabad.
The four men, who are friends and aged between 23 and 28, were returning from a party when their Swift Dzire hit the ragpicker near Chauhan Patti Gate in Delhi at around 2.50am, police said. The police registered an FIR, seen by HT, under BNS sections 281 (rash driving), 106(1) (causing death by rash and negligent act and not amounting to murder), 238 (causing disappearance of evidence), and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) at Tronica City police station on late Tuesday night. Therefore, further legal action will be initiated against the suspects,” the DCP added.
“The 25-year-old driver works at a car-washing centre in Delhi, and the Dzire car they were using was a customer’s vehicle,” assistant commissioner of police (ACP) for the Loni circle Ram Kishan said. The police said the two other suspects, who had got out of the Swift Dzire, were following the scooty in a Scorpio-N sports utility vehicle (SUV) and circled the plot to ensure that everything was normal. The four suspects were traced and detained for questioning,” deputy commissioner of police (DCP) for the rural zone Surendra Nath Tiwari told HT.
After daybreak on Tuesday, locals spotted the body in the plot and informed the police, who began checking closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage in the area. “In the CCTV footage, the police found the Scorpio-N SUV roaming around the plot in a suspicious manner around 4am on Tuesday.
