New Delhi: A man who had been missing since March 8 was found dead near Delhi Cantt Railway Station, police said on Saturday. The police said that the man was first killed, and then his body was placed on the railway tracks to make it look like a suicide.

Mutilated Body Found On Tracks

According to the Government Railway Police (GRP), a mutilated body was found near the Delhi Cantt railway station on March 9. The victim, in his early to mid-20s, was taken to a nearby hospital's mortuary for identification.
Three days later, on March 12, Anand Parbat police, who were investigating a missing persons case, contacted railway police seeking a photograph of the deceased. The deceased was identified as Pankaj, who had been missing since March 8.
"Soon after, Naveen identified the victim as his brother-in-law Pankaj, a resident of Baljit Nagar. Naveen revealed that Pankaj had been missing since March 8," a police officer said.

Why was the  Accused Killed, Pankaj?

While searching for Pankaj, Naveen found his scooter near Prem Nagar railway crossing and alerted the police. As the cops searched the CCTV footage of the locality, they found out that four to five suspects had attacked Pankaj.
The GRP registered an FIR on March 14 and detained four people.
Confessing to the crime, the accused revealed that they had an ongoing dispute with Pankaj. On March 8, they stabbed the victim multiple times near Prem Nagar railway crossing, and after he succumbed, they placed his body on the railway tracks to make it look like suicide, they said.
Later, a train ran over the body, severing it into two parts, the police said. The fifth suspect is at large, and efforts are on to trace him, they said.