Ghaziabad, June 1 -- A promising para athlete who was on the verge of representing India at this year's Asian Para Games was allegedly shot dead by a friend and fellow athlete who suspected him of being responsible for his disqualification from a competition, police said on Sunday. Police have detained a 23-year-old para athlete in connection with the murder of 24-year-old Chirag Tyagi, whose body was found at Sai Upvan near GT Road on Saturday. Tyagi had won the T12 400m event at the Indian Open in Bengaluru, which served as a selection trial for this year's Asian Para Games in Japan, and had also secured a silver medal in the T13 1,500m event in Bengaluru ealier. "We have detained his friend, who is also a para athlete and a resident of the same village. The two had been friends for six to seven years," said Upasana Pandey, ACP (City-1). Police said Tyagi was travelling from his hostel in Delhi to his village on Saturday when the suspect allegedly executed a planned murder. "Investigation revealed that the suspect accompanied Tyagi in a cab from Delhi and asked him to get down near Mahamaya Stadium close to the New Bus Adda Metro station. He then told Tyagi that a friend was expected to arrive with Rs.50,000 and persuaded him to walk to Sai Upvan," Pandey said. Once inside the forested area, the suspect allegedly shot Tyagi from behind and fled to his village, police said. Passersby later spotted the body and alerted the police. A team recovered the body around 3pm and informed the family. An FIR under Section 103(1) (murder) of the BNS was registered at Kotwali police station. He confessed to the crime and narrated the sequence of events. He told us that he had been debarred from a qualification process due to issues related to document verification and believed that Chirag had complained against him and was responsible for his disqualification," Pandey said. Police said the suspect has yet to be formally arrested....