UP doctor missing for 2 days found dead in car; injections, medicines recovered

The victim is identified as Shivam Kartikeya, a resident of the Raj Nagar Extension. On September 30, his family registered a missing-person complaint with the local police after he went missing on Tuesday.Police found medicines and injections in the carA 30-year-old doctor who went missing from Ghaziabad two days earlier was found dead inside a parked car on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in the state’s Muradnagar area on Wednesday, triggering concern in the area. The police recovered a large amount of medicines and injections from the dashboard of his car.The victim is identified as Shivam Kartikeya, a resident of the Raj Nagar Extension. On September 30, his family registered a missing person’s complaint with the local police after he went missing on Tuesday.The case took a grim turn a few hours after the police launched a probe. They received a call that a UK-registered vehicle had been parked for a long time on the expressway in the Muradnagar area. They also received information that a person appeared to be lying inside the vehicle.A team of cops soon reached the spot and found Shivam’s body inside the car. They discovered several injections and medicines inside the vehicle. According to the preliminary investigation, an overdose of the medicines or injections is being considered as a possible cause of death. The cops sent the body for a post-mortem. The actual reason behind the death has not been ascertained yet. The cops have not found any mark of injury during the preliminary investigation.Police are now gathering information from the doctor's family as part of the investigation and will take further legal action based on the findings. - Ends