A liquor trader was today shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants near a railway crossing in Govindpur on the outskirts of the steel city here, police said.
Sanjay Singh was on his way to Govindpur from Parsudih when unidentified assailants on motorbike intercepted him near railway crossing and fired at him indiscriminately, a police official said.
Critically injured Singh was rushed to a hospital with the help of local residents but doctors declared him brought dead, Deputy Superintendent of Police Animesh Naithany said.
Prima facie, he said, a dispute over a piece of land is suspected to be a cause for the killing.
