MEERUT: Shopkeepers in Meerut’s Lohiyanagar area were horrified to find an unidentified young man’s body lying on their doorstep on Friday morning. And after checking their CCTV footage, they were in for more shock. The footage showed a few cops, in the dead of night, quietly dropping the corpse in front of one of the shops.The clip soon surfaced on social media, triggering outrage among netizens with many citing “local police apathy towards common people”.To address the outrage, Meerut SSP Dr Vipin Tada immediately suspended the L-Block outpost in-charge Jitendra Kumar and constable Rajesh, and terminated the services of home guard Rohtash.“I have also instituted an internal inquiry under SP city Ayush Vikram Singh. The youth is still to be identified,” Tada said.
It is alleged that cops in Nauchanadi jurisdiction found the unidentified body in L-Block outpost area on Thursday night. To avoid being dragged into postmortem procedures, they allegedly “shifted” the body to another police jurisdiction and dumped it outside the stationery shop of Ronit Bainsla in Kazipur under Lohiyanagar thana around 1:40 am.Bainsla told TOI: “I saw the body right at the shutter of my stationery shop early morning. Other shopkeepers also assembled in the morning and we informed the police. Curious about what could’ve happened, some of them looked into the CCTV footage and there it was revealed that men in police uniform had dumped the body there.”
