Ghaziabad, July 19 (IANS) An engineer working with the Uttarakhand Public Works Department (PWD) was robbed and killed here, police said Sunday.
The incident occurred late Friday night, but the victim Shish Pal Negi’s body was only found Saturday night in Sector 5 of Vasundhara locality under Indirapuram police station of Ghaziabad, police said.

Negi was a junior engineer with the Uttarakhand PWD.

“Negi was on his way to Vijay Nagar locality in Ghaziabad to pick up his mother. He found the road blocked and he took a rickshaw from Mohan Nagar to Vijay Nagar via Vasundhara-Shipra Suncity but he was murdered by robbers in Sector 5 of Vasundhara and robbed of his mobile phone, wallet and other belongings,” a police officer said.

Negi’s brother Jawahar said: “Shish called at 3.00 a.m. Friday and said that he had taken a rickshaw and would be reaching home soon, but his phone was found switched off even at 6.00 a.m.”

“We found his body lying in an abandoned area of Sector 5 Vasundhara late Saturday night. There were injury marks on his neck and body and all his belongings were missing,” Jawahar added.

Superintendent of Police (City) Rahul Yadvendu said: “A case has been registered and police are investigating.”