JAMMU, Sept 17: A 38-year-old newspaper vendor was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside his home in the Krishna Nagar area of Jammu today, with gunshot wound to his forehead.
The deceased has been identified as Deepak Sharma, a resident of Krishna Nagar.
According to his family, Sharma had returned home from his routine work as a newspaper vendor and gone straight to his room. A short time later, family members found him lying in a pool of blood with a pistol lying near his body and immediately alerted the authorities.
A police team from the Nowabad Police Station swiftly reached the scene, secured the area, and shifted the body to the Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu.
A board of doctors conducted a postmortem examination before handing the body over to the bereaved family for last rites.
The incident has raised significant questions, as family members stated that they had no prior information about any shooting, did not hear the sound of a gunshot, and confirmed that the firearm found near the deceased did not belong to anyone in the household.
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