Ghaziabad: The body of a 30-year-old man was found along a road in Masuri on Thursday. Police suspect an unidentified vehicle hit his motorcycle before the driver fled. The motorcycle was found near the body.ACP (Masuri) Sunil Kumar said at 6.35am they were informed about a man with severe injuries lying beside the road through the emergency helpline. A police team took him to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him dead.The man has been identified as Muradnagar resident Md Shakeel. He worked in a private company in the city. A preliminary investigation found that Shakeel was heading to work when his motorcycle was hit by another driver. “We didn’t find any eyewitnesses of the accident. We are checking the CCTV cameras of nearby areas to identify the vehicle,” Kumar said.Shakeel’s family has been informed about the accident, but they have not filed a complaint yet. “We will register an FIR in the case soon,” he added.In another accident, 27-year-old Satish Kumar died after a truck hit his pickup van on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway on Monday. An FIR was registered based on his father Dalchandra’s complaint on Wednesday.According to the complaint, Kumar and his employee, Kaushal Singh, were returning to Firozpur, a village in Bijnor district, in Kumar’s Mahindra pickup truck. Kumar was driving the pickup when they noticed a problem with the vehicle. They parked the truck on the left side of the Delhi-Meerut carriageway. They had kept the indicators on.However, around 3:30 am, the driver of a trailer truck bearing a registration number of Rajasthan hit the pickup with force. The pickup truck overturned, trapping Kumar under the vehicle. “The trailer was being driven at a high speed and negligently. My son was seriously injured and the vehicle was damaged,” Dalchandra told the cops.“The trailer driver then left the vehicle and fled. With the help of passersby, Kaushal Singh took my son to the govt hospital in Dasna, where the doctor declared him dead,” he said.ACP Sunil Kumar said an FIR has been registered against the driver under sections 106 (death due to negligence), 324(4) (causing intentional property damage or loss) and 281 (rash driving) of BNS. Teams have been formed to nab him and cops are checking CCTV cameras.
