Decomposed body found in Karol Bagh

NEW DELHI: A highly decomposed body of a man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was recovered from Karol Bagh in central Delhi on Monday evening.
“We received a call around 5.30pm. The body had a jeans, a T-shirt and black socks on it. He could have been murdered a few days ago. It appears that the man was killed elsewhere and the body was dumped here,” said a senior police officer.The man’s identity is yet to be established.
The incident came to light after local people complained of stench from an alley on Tank Road. Police reached the spot and found the body that was wrapped in a green plastic bag before being put in the gunny bag and dumped near a drainage pipe in the narrow lane.
Sources said the body had multiple head injuries. Cops said they were going to check the missing persons report lodged recently in the district and nearby areas. The cause of the death is not known yet but cops suspect the man could have also been strangled. A murder case has been registered and the body will be preserved for 72 hours for identification before a postmortem is conducted.
“The market remains closed on Monday, so no one was able to spot the man who placed the bag,” said Arvind Nagar, a local shopkeeper.
Sanjeev, a local resident, said, “We were playing cricket in the nearby street when someone complained of a foul smell coming from the nearby lane. We noticed that the smell was coming from a white gunny bag kept near the drainage pipes and immediately informed police.”