A 35-year-old cab driver was allegedly found dead inside his car on Monday with gunshot injuries, police said.
The deceased, Kuldeep Rathore, a resident of Shahjahanpur, used to operate his car on hire, which was found parked in a field along the roadside near a village in the Puwayan area, Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Deeksha Bhanwar said.
“Upon inspection, the driver’s body was recovered from inside the vehicle. He had been shot dead,” she said.
It is suspected that Rathore had taken some unidentified passengers on hire on Sunday, police said.
The body has been sent for a post-mortem, and an investigation is underway to identify the culprits and determine the motive behind the killing, they said.
