Overview
- Baldev was killed by a gunshot to the head on the night of August 20–21 while sleeping alone in an old house on his family’s farmland in Mandkola village, Palwal district.
- Police said he had returned home on leave a day earlier after being recruited in 2024 under the Agnipath scheme.
- A murder case was registered at Gadpuri police station on a complaint by his father, and investigators said raids are underway to arrest the accused who are absconding.
- The family alleges the assailants are villagers previously implicated in a July 16 attack on Baldev’s uncle, for which an attempt-to-murder FIR had been filed.
- Officials said the post-mortem was completed and the body handed over to the family, naming suspects including Rajendra, Naresh, Bansi and Arun in the ongoing probe.