Uttar Pradesh: Indian Army Jawan on leave to testify in murder case shot dead in Saharanpur | Today news

Uttar Pradesh: An Army soldier who came home to testify in a murder case was allegedly shot dead on Thursday, April 10 in the Saharanpur district Uttar Pradesh. The deceased was identified as Vikrant Gurjar. Twenty-seven-year-old Gurjar is a resident of the Mudikhedi village in Saharanpur to the west of Uttar Pradesh. He was placed in Jammu and Kashmir. Gurjar came home on Tuesday, April 8 with a four -day leave to testify in a murder case, officials were cited in a report by the PTI news agency. Gurjar allegedly died between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. According to his family, Gurjar went to the dinner, but when he did not return, they tried to contact him over the phone. However, his phone was turned off. Senipr superintendent of the Police (SSP). Saharanpur said: Prima facie, it seems to be a case of murder. “The family expressed suspicions, and a complaint is registered. We are investigating all angles, including the old murder case in which Vikrant was a witness,” he said by ETV Bharat. Early Thursday morning, some residents contacted the family after finding his body near a road with gunshot wounds to his head and chest, Sagar Jain, Superintendent of Police (rural), Saharanpur, the news agency news agency told the news agency. The family says he was the most important witness in the murder of his cousin Rajat, who was stabbed to death four years ago. In addition, senior officers in the town are present and have deployed an additional police force to look at any unforeseen incident, Jain added. Another case in a similar case in the neighboring Muzaffar Nagar, a 35-year-old murder case of the murder case, was shot dead in Bijopura Village, police said on Monday. The deceased identified Salman was an important witness in his brother’s murder case, pending in a lake court, the Circuit officer Devwrat Bajpai told reporters. The family expressed suspicions, and a complaint was registered. We examine all angles. Police have identified the key accused as Irfan. He and four of his co -workers – Kaliya, Mohammad Ali, Naimuddin and Fazil – all natives of Multiut – were charged with Salman’s murder. (With agency input) first published: 10 Apr 2025, 05:27 IST