WATCH: Viral video shows UP cops dumping body in another area to avoid work; suspended

The footage showed a group of policemen, in the dead of night, discreetly leaving the body outside a shop.

Two police personnel — a sub-inspector and a home guard — have been suspended for allegedly relocating an unidentified body to another area under the cover of night, officials said on Friday.

The suspension followed the emergence of CCTV footage exposing their actions.

The footage showed a group of policemen, in the dead of night, discreetly leaving the body outside a shop. The clip quickly spread across social media, sparking outrage, with many users accusing the local police of showing “apathy towards common people.”

Meerut: The UP police found a dead body. It was unidentified. The police then placed the body in an e-rickshaw and dumped it in another police station area. SSP Dr Vipin Tada suspended three cops. That's all that happened. pic.twitter.com/fQTzKFStQy

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Responding to the public anger, Meerut SSP Dr. Vipin Tada swiftly suspended L-Block outpost in-charge Jitendra Kumar and constable Rajesh, and dismissed home guard Rohtash from service.

"I have also instituted an internal inquiry under SP city Ayush Vikram Singh. The youth is still to be identified," Tada said.

It is alleged that police personnel in the Nauchanadi area discovered the unidentified body in the L-Block outpost limits on Thursday night. To avoid involvement in postmortem formalities, they allegedly “shifted” the body to another police jurisdiction and left it outside the stationery shop of Ronit Bainsla in Kazipur under Lohiyanagar police station around 1:40 am.

Bainsla told TOI: "I saw the body right at the shutter of my stationery shop early morning. Other shopkeepers also assembled in the morning and we informed the police. Curious about what could've happened, some of them looked into the CCTV footage and there it was revealed that men in police uniform had dumped the body there."