Missing IAF personnel found murdered in Unnao district

Kanpur:Body of a 27-year-old Air Force personnel, who had left home on Monday night, was found riddled with bullets on the roadside in Basdhana village under the limits of Gangaghat Kotwali police station in Unnao district on Tuesday, reports Faiz Siddiqui.
The police identified the deceased as Prateek Singh, a resident of Prem Nagar in Shuklaganj area of Unnao.The police said that Prateek, who was posted as an Airman in the Air Force in Jammu, had come to his native place on June 11.
Police said on Monday night around 9 pm after receiving a phone call, he had left home for somewhere. He, however, did not return home. The family members searched for him and later lodged a complaint with the Gangaghat police. On Tuesday morning, villagers found a body lying on the road in Basdhana village under Hajipur police out-post with bullet wounds and alerted the police.
“Bullet injuries were found in his eyes, besides an empty cartridge of 315 bore was recovered from near his body. The body was shifted to the District hospital for postmortem. On the basis of a complaint, we have detained his relative Vinay Soni, who is also an Air Force employee and a resident of Unnao’s Achalganj, for questioning. Prateek’s family has accused Vinay of calling him over some pretext and later murdering him. We are also trying to ascertain the call detail record of all those persons who were in touch with the deceased on his phone during the last few hours prior to his killing and also scanning CCTV footage,” said ASP Unnao Shashi Shekhar Singh.