Gwalior, July 24 -- A man, convicted in a murder case, released on parole from Gwalior Central Jail, was allegedly shot dead near the Gwalior-Shivpuri border late Wednesday night, a police officer said on Thursday.

The convict, identified as Leeladhar Tomar, was serving a life imprisonment sentence for murdering his father and was released on a 16-day parole on July 14. He went to Shivpuri via private taxi on Wednesday and was returning from there, but on the way, he was shot by unknown persons near Satanwada, Gwalior-Shivpuri border area.

The driver of the vehicle in which he was travelling immediately rushed him to the Jaya Arogya Hospital (JAH) in Gwalior, but the doctors pronounced him dead. After that, the taxi driver informed the ...