Relatives of Jagdish Bhutani (62), who was reported missing from his Vani Vihar Extension house on February 17, claimed that the officers of Bindapur Police Station in west Delhi did not search for Bhutani when he went missing. They said they had lodged an FIR the day after he went missing.

Officers of Uttam Nagar Police Station, which is near the Bindapur station, found his body with tied hands in Mohan Garden on February 24.

The body was kept in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital’s mortuary for three days and the police did not inform when they cremated him on February 27, family members said.

“We came to know that his body was found and that the police cremated him. How can they do that,” said Ashok Jaggi, nephew of the deceased.