Ghaziabad: The half-burnt body of an 18-year-old boy who had been missing since last week was unearthed from a room of his girlfriend’s house in a village in Ghaziabad on Tuesday, police said.
Iraj Raja, superintendent of police (SP), Rural, said Mursleem went missing on August 11 from Khirazpur village in Muradnagar and a case was filed in connection with this on August 15. The police conducted a thorough search of his girlfriend’s house after locals complained about a foul smell emanating from the house.
In the presence of a magistrate, the floor of a room in the house was dug up and the body of the youth was exhumed, the police report said, adding that there were signs of acid burns on the body.
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According to the police, the highly decomposed body was submitted for a post-mortem examination and the matter was being investigated from all sides. The cause of death would be determined following the autopsy, the SP added.
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