<p>Saharanpur: 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><p>The deceased 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><p>The alleged murder happened between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. </p>.SIT formed for probe into rape-murder of six-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh.<p>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><p>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><p>The family says he was the key witness in the murder of his cousin Rajat, who was stabbed to death four years ago. </p><p>Police have yet to receive a formal complaint in the matter, but they have sent the body for post-mortem. </p><p>Besides, senior officers are present in the village and have deployed an additional police force to check for any untoward incident, Jain added.</p>
<p>Saharanpur: 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><p>The deceased 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><p>The alleged murder happened between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. </p>.SIT formed for probe into rape-murder of six-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh.<p>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><p>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><p>The family says he was the key witness in the murder of his cousin Rajat, who was stabbed to death four years ago. </p><p>Police have yet to receive a formal complaint in the matter, but they have sent the body for post-mortem. </p><p>Besides, senior officers are present in the village and have deployed an additional police force to check for any untoward incident, Jain added.</p>