The auto-rickshaw driver who was charred to demise after his CNG automobile caught hearth earlier this week has been recognized as 50-year-old Nanhe Lal, from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, police mentioned on Saturday.
Police mentioned the incident passed off on April 27 close to Hans Enclave on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway. The automobile is suspected to have caught hearth following a sudden blaze, triggered by a CNG leak or explosion.
In keeping with commuters, the flames engulfed the automobile inside minutes and the motive force was trapped inside. Hearth tenders arrived on the spot and doused the fireplace, nevertheless had driver suffered 70% burn accidents and died inside a couple of hours, mentioned officers.
Police mentioned that Lal lived within the Badshahpur space and had not been in touch along with his household for 4 days because the day of the incident. His household approached the police, a couple of days after the incident, and recognized the physique.
Preliminary findings counsel that Lal might need been intoxicated on the time of the incident, in keeping with his members of the family who spoke to him a couple of hours earlier than the incident, police mentioned.
Following the identification, the physique was handed over to the household after postmortem. Additional investigation is underway to establish the precise explanation for the fireplace, police mentioned.
