The traffic movement between Dehradun and Haridwar was brought to a standstill after Harrawala residents blocked the national highway keeping the body of a youth in the middle of the road on Sunday morning.
The body of the youth was found in a sack, kept a few yards away from his house. Seeing the police’s lackadaisical attitude towards the case, the irate locals blocked the road keeping body in the middle of the national highway.
The police nabbed around half a dozen people on suspicion but failed to crack the case. later, the police assured that they would solve the case by Tuesday morning, then victim’s family removed the body and traffic resumed after about five hours. On Sunday, people were shocked to discover a body in a sack outside a hotel, which is just few hundred yards away from victim’s house.
The deceased was identified as Nafeez Ahmed. As the news spread, people gathered in large numbers to identify the body. Till then, Ahmed’s family was unaware about the incident and when the locals his family members, his sister and brother-in-law Shahzad informed other family members including his mother about the incident.
Shahzad said, “On Saturday, at around 8 pm, Nafeez had received a call and he left the house by saying that he would return shortly but he did not return.” The family members kept the body on national highway and demanded justice. later, the senior police officials reached the spot and pressed Special operation group (SOG), dog squad and forensic science laboratory (FSl) into action immediately.
Seeing this, they opened the national highway but when police failed to nab the accused then they again blocked it at around11 am, since then, the people had to face tough time to reach Haridwar or Rishikesh or Dehradun. The victim’s family was adamant that unless and until police solve the case they would not allow traffic to resume.