India, April 5 -- Police on Friday morning recovered body of a 25-year-old man under mysterious circumstances from inside a water tank, placed on first floor of his neighbour's water plant in Loni's Uttaranchal Vihar colony in Ghaziabad, officers said, adding that the man went missing since March 31.

Police identified the man as Satyam Kumar alias Pintu who left home around 10pm on March 31 and never returned thereafter.

"His family launched a search for him, and finally they gave a missing complaint to the police on Thursday. Friday morning, a woman from the family of their neighbour, who runs a water packaging plant, sensed some foul smell. She went to the first floor, opened the 1,000-litre water tank, and found a body inside. Police...