Uttar Pradesh, April 10 -- He returned home on leave, not for rest, but to seek justice in his cousin's murder case. But fate had other plans for Vikrant Gurjar, a jawan of Indian Army.

Little did Vikrant know that he will fall to bullets, not on the battle field, but in his own village in Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh. Vikrant was allegedly shot dead in his native village on Thursday, April 10.

Twenty-seven-year-old Vikrant was a resident of Mudikhedi village in Saharanpur - about 200 kilometres from the national capital. He was posted in Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir.

Vikrant came home on Tuesday, April 8, on a four-day leave to testify in a murder case, officials were quoted as saying in a report by news agency PTI. Vikrant...