New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) A 42-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was shot dead in the national capital, an official said on Thursday.
According to the official, the victim was identified as Jitender alias Jitu Choudhary, a resident of Mayur Vihar Phase 3.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (East District) Priyanka Kashyap said the beat staff of Ghazipur police station, during patrolling on Wednesday evening, noticed a gathering near pocket C-1.
When the police reached the spot they found a man lying in a pool of blood in front of his house.
"The victim was having gunshot injuries and the public shifted the injured to a hospital in a private vehicle where he was decided brought dead," the DCP said.
Upon inspecting the crime scene, the police recovered a few empty cartridges and other important evidences from the spot.
"Search of eye witnesses and CCTV footage is being made. Legal action is being taken," the official added.
Ishapur Kheri, a village in Sonepat district of Haryana with a population of 5000, has barred girls from using mobile phones and wearing jeans, as the villagers fear that it “makes them elope with boys”.
Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo died of 'cardiac arrest' here on Wednesday evening, officials of Patiala Central Jail where he was lodged said.
Without a job for 10 months now, Rajput has been through rough times ever since a case of rape was registered against him by a fellow shooter in December 2016.
A 43-year-old woman was run over by an oncoming train while she was fleeing from a monkey that had attacked her at Hempur depot railway station in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district, Wednesday, a senior official said.
