An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, Naveen Das (25), was found “charred” to death on Friday morning inside a burnt down car in Ghaziabad, police said. Some passerby, who noticed the car, made a call to the police control room. According to police while the deceased mobile phone was found intact the car keys were missing.
The Investigating Officer (IO) said incident might have taken place between 2:30 and 3:00 am on Friday. The spot where the charred car was found is an abandoned place located alongside the road leading to Loni from Sahibabad in Bhopra locality which comes under Sahibabad police station of Ghaziabad.
According to police, while the data from the phone was being retrieved it was found that till 4:30 am the WhatsApp notices were received on the phone.
While the family members of the deceased who reached the spot after being informed claimed it to be a murder rather than an accident. However, the mystery shrouds as the car key was not found inside the car.
They contemplate that some accused might have called him to the abandoned area and locked him inside car before putting it on fire. They alleged that in the absence of key he could have failed to bring down glasses and unlock the car.
The SP City Shlok Kumar told The Pioneer that on the complaint of his family members a criminal case has been registered in Sahibabad police station. The dead body has been sent for postmortem. His sister told police that at 12:30 am, the deceased talked to her in which he told her that he had searched a house in Delhi to be taken on rent.
According to police, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the grieving family of the AAP leader.