Missing bizman’s body found hanging

NEW DELHI: A day after he went missing from outside his grocery store in east Delhi’s Karkardooma, a 37-year-old trader was found hanging from a tree with his hands tied behind in outer Delhi’s Baprola Vihar on Wednesday, police said.

The man, Gaurav Bansal, lived with his family in Patparganj. His family suspects he was abducted from outside his shop by unidentified persons, who murdered him and hanged his body near a lake in Baprola Vihar near Ranhola , 40 kilometres from Karkardooma. The family had filed a missing complaint at the Anand Vihar police station late Tuesday night.

Deputy commissioner of police (outer) A Koan said the body was hanging from a rope near a lake around 8.30 am Wednesday and his hands were tied from behind.

“We are probing the murder case,” Koan said.

Bansal’s brother-in-law, Amit Kohli, said he had left home for the shop in his Creta car at 10.30 am on Tuesday. Bansal’s phone was switched off when his family members tried contacting him at 3 pm. Around 4 pm, they went to check on him and found that the shop’s shutter was partially closed and the employees were standing outside.

“The employees told us Bansal left the shop around 2.30 pm, asking them to go out for their lunch. We got worried and approached the police when his wife, Shanu, got a call from an unknown person, who claimed to be calling from Pune,” said Kohli.

While Bansal’s family alleged that despite filing a missing complaint the police did not take action, the police said the family reported the matter late and the probe team does not suspect any foul play.