Pune: A former Army officer and a graduate of the National Defence Academy (NDA), who used to live on the footpath in the Cantonment area, has been found murdered.
According to the police, Captain Ravindra Bali (65), a native of Kota, Rajasthan, was killed by two youths using a cement block in the wee hours of Friday.
A case under Sections 302 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Lashkar police station. “A security guard, who witnessed the assault on the victim, alerted us,” said a police inspector. A motive for the crime is yet to be ascertained, said the police.
Bali, who used to live like a recluse, had reportedly turned down the Army’s offers to help him, stating that he preferred to live on the footpath. Bali joined the NDA in 1970 and had undergone training at the College of Military Engineering, Pune. He was cashiered from the service following a court-martial in 1989.
