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Chandigarh man shot dead in Punjab town

By IANS,

Mohali : A 42-year-old resident of Chandigarh was shot dead Sunday allegedly by his cousins in Kurali town of Punjab over a property dispute, police said.

“Raj Kumar is a resident of Maloya village in Chandigarh. He had some old dispute over a piece of land with his cousins. His cousins shot him dead after a brief altercation,” Manjit Singh, a police official told IANS.

Raj Kumar had gone to Kurali to visit a gurdwara. The attackers were identified as Gurpreet Singh and Makhan Singh.

“We have arrested Makhan Singh while Gurpreet managed to flee. We have sent the body for the post-mortem examination,” Singh said. Kurali is 20 km from Chandigarh.