India, Jan. 2 -- The Ghaziabad police have arrested one of the two suspected shooters who allegedly took up the contract killing for Rs.5 lakh allegedly promised by two absconding sons of the deceased, officials said on Thursday in the daylight murder of a 58-year-old retired personnel of the Indian Air Force in Loni on December 26.

Yogesh Kumar, a retired warrant officer who retired on July 31, was shot dead by two unidentified bikers on a road near Ashok Vihar in Loni in the afternoon.

Following an FIR for murder lodged by Nitesh Kumar, 28, elder son of the deceased, the police initiated an investigation and have arrested Arvind Singh, 32, a neighbour of the deceased, from the old check-post area near Ashok Vihar.

Officials said that...