Missing youth found dead

Relatives protest with body, disrupt traffic

The body of a 21-year-old youth who was missing for the last two days was found near a canal in northwest Delhi’s KN Katju Marg on Monday morning.

The victim's relatives and local residents put the body on road and protested against police, which led to traffic disruption on Kanjhawala road.

The protesters alleged that the deceased Ravi was murdered and thrown in the canal.
Senior police officers reached the spot and pacified the people before taking away the body for post mortem.

A resident of Rajiv Nagar’s Gali No-2 in Begumpur area, Ravi used to live with his parents.
According to sources, Ravi’s two friends Kamal and Ranjit came at his house on Saturday and took him along on a bike. Since then he was missing.

Following his disappearance, Ravi’s parents went to Begumpur police station and registered a missing complaint.

On Monday, when police and Ravi’s relatives were searching for him, a passer-by informed the police about a body lying in a bush near a canal in Rohini’s KN Katju marg.
After hearing about it, his parents went to the place and identified the body.

They then brought it to Kanjhawala and put it on the Kanjhawala Road.

Ravi’s parents were joined by around 200 people who sat on the road and started protesting against his alleged murder.

The protesters also pelted stones at passing vehicles and only after the arrival of senior police officers that the protest came to an end.

Police are questioning Ravi’s parents and his relatives. A search for his two friends with whom he went out on a bike on Saturday has also started.

Police suspect that Kamal and Ranjit will be able to reveal the mystery behind Ravi’s death.

However, police have refused to call it a murder just yet and are waiting for the post-mortem report.