Delhi: Chopped body of missing 26-yr-old man found in fridge at friend's house

New Delhi: In a gruesome incident, a 26-year-old man was hacked to death and his dismembered body stuffed inside a fridge in south Delhi's Saidulajab area, police said on Saturday.

The victim has been identified as Vipin Joshi, a native of Uttarakhand, they said.

Joshi was missing since two days, police said, adding his family members had, in search of him, reached his friend Badal Mandal's house in Delhi last evening.

Though the house was locked, they were alarmed by a nauseating stench coming from the building, after which they called the police.

The police broke into the house and found the victim's body parts inside the fridge.

A case has been registered and efforts are on to trace Mandal, police added.