JAIPUR: The mutilated body of an unidentified man was found along a busy stretch on the Jaipur-New Delhi highway after several vehicles suspected to have run over the corpse multiple times on Tuesday.
The accident took place near a bus stand in Kotputli’s Paota area around in the wee hours of Tuesday.
A team from Paragpura police station, which arrived at the scene claimed they found the corpse completely mutilated and torn apart.
Authorities claimed that no one stopped at the site to alert an ambulance or police about the accident.
“We received information around 5.51 am and dispatched a team to the area which reached the spot immediately.
We found that the body was completely disfigured on the road and the face was crushed beyond recognition,” said an official from Paragpura police station.
Jaipur rural police told TOI that they covered the body with a cloth and moved it from the highway to the mortuary of a local hospital in Kotputli area.
DSP (Kotputli) Dinesh Kumar Yadav said that efforts were made to identify the victim.
“The police team had arrived at the spot swiftly because Paragpura police station is not far from the place where the accident had taken place.
The body was moved to the mortuary,” he told TOI, adding that CCTV camera footage of the nearby area was retrieved to zero in on the victim’s moments before the accident.
Jaipur rural police suspect the accident may have occurred early in the morning.
Vehicles passing through the area could not spot the body in the dark.
“He may have died after hit by a speeding vehicle near Paota.
It is also likely that instead of multiple vehicles, an overloaded multi-axle truck may have plowed into him,” an official informed TOI.
Located at about 160 km away from the city, the area near the Paota bus stand is usually teeming with people round the clock.
But no one called to inform us of the accident.
An official claimed that the victim’s clothes were also torn apart due to which no identification proof was found on him.