New Delhi: Panic gripped south Delhi's Fatehpur Beri area after body of a youth chopped in three pieces was recovered from a nearby jungle close to Bhatti Mines here last afternoon.

The incident came to light when someone saw the body and called the police around 2 pm after which police officials rushed to the spot and sent the body for post mortem.

“The body was later identified as 18-year-old Kuldeep Kumar who was a resident of Sanjay colony in Fatehpur Beri. He worked as a delivery boy in a Gurgaon-based courier company.

He had joined the courier company just last week,” said a senior police official.

Kuldeep's parents had lodged a missing complaint about their son on Wednesday afternoon.  Police have registered a case and  further investigation is on. No arrest has been made so far.