An Indian Army soldier, who was on leave, was abducted from his home and later killed in Manipur’s Imphal.

A day after he was abducted, Serto Thangthang Kom was found shot dead by unidentified assailants about 14 kilometres from his home. He was reportedly abducted from his family’s home in Tarung, in Imphal West’s Happy Valley, at about 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Kom’s 10-year-old son was reportedly the only eyewitness to the abduction and told police that three miscreants had entered their home while they were working on the porch. According to the boy, his father was forced into a white-coloured vehicle at gunpoint and driven away.

Kom’s body was found on Sunday morning, at about 9.30 a.m., at Khuningthek village, under the jurisdiction of Sagolmang Police Station in Imphal East. His cousin, Pachung Kom, said the perpetrators may have been people known to the dead soldier, as they singled him out and abducted him from his home.

The soldier was from Manipur’s Kom tribe.

Earlier, boxing champion M C Mary Kom, who is also from the community, had written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking his intervention to ensure “security forces prevent both warring groups from intrusion to Kom villages in Manipur”.