An army soldier on leave to testify in a murder case was allegedly shot dead in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The soldier has been identified as 27-year-old Vikrant Gurjar. A resident of Mudikhedi village here, he was posted in Jammu and Kashmir. Vikrant came home on Tuesday on a four-day leave to testify in the case, they said.<\/p>\n
The alleged murder happened between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. According to Vikrant’s family, he went out for a walk after dinner, but when he did not return, they tried to contact him over the phone. However, his phone was found switched off.<\/p>\n
Early Thursday morning, some villagers contacted the family after finding his body near a road with gunshot wounds to his head and chest, Sagar Jain, Superintendent of Police (Rural), told PTI.<\/p>\n
The family says he was the key witness in the murder of his cousin Rajat, who was stabbed to death four years ago. Police have yet to receive a formal complaint in the matter, but they have sent the body for post-mortem. Besides, senior officers are present in the village and have deployed an additional police force to check for any untoward incident, Jain added.<\/p>\n
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