A RJD worker was today shot
dead by unidentified criminals in Bihar's Samastipur district, the police said.
Superintendent of Police Suresh Prasad Chaudhary said half-a-dozen armed criminal accosted Arvind Bhagat alias Chhanan Bhagat while he was having tea at a roadside shop in his village Adharpur and opened fire on him.
Bhagat ran towards a temple to save himself, but the criminals followed him and pumped more bullet resulting in his death on the spot under Muffasil police station area, the SP said.
Though the SP said the reason for the murder was under investigation, the sources in police and villagers said it was an outcome of an old enmity.
The victim's nephew Sinat Bhagat was killed on the same spot six months back.
Agitated villagers blocked the Samastipur-Taazpur road protesting against the murder.
Later, the police placated the agitators and lifted the roadblock, the SP said.
