Soldier on Diwali visit to home found dead near Alipur

NEW DELHI: An Army jawan, who was coming home in Rohini for Diwali, was found dead near Alipur on Wednesday. Police are probing if he had met with an accident or was murdered.
The victim, Ranjeet Singh’s (48), luggage was not found beside the body while his clothes were torn. His family members alleged that he has been murdered since the body was found near a farmhouse, away from the highway where he had got off a bus.
Singh, attached with 267 Bombay Engineers and posted at Pathankot, had got four days leave for Diwali.His father Mahinder Singh said he had called him thrice after he left from Ludhiana to inform that he had boarded the bus for Delhi. “He said he will reach in 15 minutes after which he was unreachable,” the father said.
The family members then started to look for him in the locality and later approached the police. After a few hours, they were asked to visit the Alipur police station where the police showed them a body kept in an ambulance for identification, which was found to be Singh’s. Police told them that he was found lying near a farmhouse, a few kilometres away from the highway. He had an injury on the head and the collar bone was broken.
Singh’s father alleged foul play into the death since the body was found far from the spot where he was supposed to have got off the bus. “How can he travel such a distance when he told me that he would reach home in 15 minutes,” he said.