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Karnal (Haryana), June 15 (IANS) A middle-aged man, who was made witness in a murder case involving two senior Congress leaders, was found dead in Haryana’s Karnal district Wednesday, police said.

Charnail Singh’s body was recovered from Sector 4 area here. He lived in Madlauda village in Panipat district of Haryana.

“Yes, we have recovered the body today. Our investigation is on and right now, we cannot comment further,” Karnal’s Superintendent of Police Rakesh Kumar Arya told IANS.

Police said Charnail was made witness in the murder of former village headman Karam Singh.

Karam Singh’s badly stabbed body was found near the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) in Karnal June 7.

Names of former Haryana tourism and transport minister Om Prakash Jain and Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Zile Ram Sharma figured in the case. Both were forced to quit on the issue.

Haryana’s Additional Director General of Police (crime) Sharad Kumar said: “We had recorded the statement of Charnail Singh in connection with Karam Singh’s murder around a couple of days back. It is very difficult to reach on any concrete conclusion about his murder at this moment.”

Police sources said Charnail was a relative of Karam Singh and he had also paid Rs.400,000 to Zile Ram Sharma to arrange a job for his relative.

Just a day before his murder, Karam Singh had submitted a written complaint to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the police that he was duped of nearly Rs.13 lakh by Jain and Sharma, who promised to provide government jobs to his son and two nephews.