Son spots slippers, discovers father's body crushed by vehicles in UP's Jhansi

A missing farmer from Jhansi was identified after his son found his slippers and clothes on the highway. The case has drawn attention to how road repairs and delayed detection left only remains for police to collect.No one noticed for 2 days: Jhansi man’s body crushed repeatedly on busy highway.Jhansi,Oct 13, 2026 04:34 ISTA horrifying incident has come to light in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, where the body of a 56-year-old man was crushed by hundreds of vehicles on the Jhansi-Kanpur highway for nearly two days without anyone noticing. The body was flattened and stuck to the road, forcing police to scrape off the remains. The deceased was identified by his son on Sunday using his slippers and clothes. The remains were collected in a small bundle and sent for a post-mortem examination.The deceased was identified as Jagmohan Tiwari, a resident of Maharajganj village under the Poonch police station limits in Jhansi district. He was a farmer and is survived by two sons and a daughter. While his elder son, Sagar, and daughter, Prachi, are married, his younger son, Ayush, is unmarried.According to the family, Jagmohan left home around 11 am on October 9 to visit his agricultural field near the Jhansi-Kanpur highway. When he did not return home at night, his wife, Ragni, assumed he had stayed at the field, as he had done on previous occasions. Since Jagmohan did not own a mobile phone, the family could not contact him.On Sunday, Ayush returned home with his grandmother, Shoma Tiwari, whom he had gone to Gujarat to bring back. When he found his father missing, his mother told him that Jagmohan had gone to the field and had not returned. Ayush then went out to search for him. During the search, locals told him about an accident on the highway. At the spot, he found his father's slippers, towel and clothes. He identified Jagmohan from these belongings, as the body had been severely mutilated after being repeatedly run over by passing vehicles.According to the family, no part of the body remained intact, with only fragments of flesh and hair found at the scene. Police reached the spot on Sunday night and scraped the remains off the road before collecting them for further procedures. Poonch police station SHO Vidya Sagar said the police reached the spot after receiving information about the incident. He said Jagmohan had been missing for two days and that road repair work was underway at the location, which may have prevented people from noticing the body.The police took custody of the remains and conducted the post-mortem examination. Further action in the case is underway.- Ends