Youth kill Army jawan in Maharashtra

Mumbai: An Army jawan was killed when two youth allegedly snatched his service weapon and shot him in Bhusawal in North Maharashtra.

The incident occurred at Bajarpeth in Bhusawal of Jalgaon district last night.

The two suspects have been arrested.

The 32-year-old jawan Shaikh Aquil Shaikh Rehman was a resident of



Bhusawal and had gone to an adjacent locality where he got into a quarrel with the two youth, police said.

“The armyman then took out his service pistol which the youth snatched from him and shot him on his hand and abdomen. He was rushed to the civil hospital at Jalgaon where he was declared dead,” the official said.