India, June 2 -- A body of a 24-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was found beside a nullah in Greater Noida's Ecotech 3 area on Monday morning after an unidentified vehicle hit his auto from behind and fled the scene, said police officials.

The deceased, identified as Pradeep Kumar, 24, was originally from Etah who resided with family in Greater Noida.

According to police, when Kumar did not return home from work on Monday morning, his family went out to search for him. "While searching on his way back home, they found his body lying next to a nullah beside his damaged auto-rickshaw, a few meters before the Yamaha Cut in Greater Noida," said a police officer, requesting anonymity.

"After we were alerted via the emergency helpline number 1...