Ghaziabad: Four men from Delhi have been taken into custody for allegedly dumping the body of a road accident victim in a vacant plot in Om Vihar Colony, police said Tuesday.Tronica City Police received information on Nov 10 that the body of a man was lying in a walled plot near a wood godown in Om Vihar Colony. A team led by the station in-charge reached the spot and found injury marks on the head and back of the body.Four people were named in the incident: Sanjay; Sachin Tomar alias Bholu; Aditya Singh Rana, alias Aadi; and Tarun, son of Rajkumar. All four live in Chauhan Patti.A field unit was called in. Inquest and postmortem proceedings were initiated.Police checked surveillance and CCTV footage from the spot, which first showed a Scorpio-N as suspicious. The footage then showed two people carrying the body, seated between them on a scooty, from the Sonia Vihar area in Delhi. The same people were seen near the godown where the body was found.The Scorpio-N was traced, and the owner and others linked to it were questioned. Police said questioning the Scorpio-n owner revealed that Sanjay, son of Buddhi Ram, was driving a Swift Dzire when it hit an unknown person at around 2:50am on Nov 10, in front of the Chauhan Patti gate, Delhi.During interrogation, the accused told police that they panicked after the accident, scouted the area in the Scorpio-N. The others seated the body between them on a scooty, and dumped it in the plot in Om Vihar Colony, the note said. Police have recovered both vehicles.Efforts are underway to establish the deceased’s identity. Preliminary information suggested that the victim earned his livelihood collecting scrap.
