India, Oct. 27 -- Three businessmen were found dead inside a hatchback car which was pulled out of a pond in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district late Monday night, police said on Tuesday.

Station house officer (SHO) Atul Choudhary said the bodies have been sent for postmortem examination and all aspects of the incident were being investigated.

"The exact cause of death will be known only after the postmortem report comes in," he said.

He stated that the incident came to light around 1:30am when some villagers returning home from duty noticed something floating in the pond. When they flashed a torch towards it, they spotted the roof of a car and immediately alerted the police.

A police team reached the spot and got the car pulled out with...