A property dealer was today shot dead allegedly by some unidentified men in Murad Nagar town, police said.
The incident occurred when Sunder Tyagi, around 45 years, was sitting outside his house in Friends Colony, situated on the Delhi-Meerut road, they said.
Senior Superintendent of police Vaibhav Krishna told that Tyagi was a property and used to selling plots in Defense Enclave on the Delhi-Meerut road near ordinance factory.
Around 8.00pm, four assailants on two bikes reached there and took him to the place where he used to sell plots on the pretext of purchasing a plot and allegedly fired upon him, the SSP said.
He was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Ghaziabad where he succumbed to his injuries, he said.
An FIR has been lodged against unidentified men and it seems to be a matter of old enmity, the official added.