Murder case eyewitness shot dead on highway

A man who was an eyewitness to the killing of his brother was shot dead by two bike-born miscreants in Shamli district.

Muzaffarnagar: A man who was an eyewitness to the killing of his brother was shot dead by two bike-born miscreants in Shamli district, a police official said Sunday.

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Siyanand, 45, was shot dead on the Meerut-Karnal highway when he was returning home from a sugar mill in Shamli city last evening, the official said. 

Police suspect old enmity to be the reason behind the killing.

The body of an elderly, who was missing for the past three months, was found hidden at his son's home at a village.

Siyanand was an eyewitness to the killing of his brother Ravinder, who too was shot dead a few months ago. (PTI)