A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Thursday near Bodhpur village in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
The killers stopped the car in which BJP leader Pramod Yadav was travelling on the pretext of giving him an invitation card and shot at him. “The killers fired four shots at the deceased. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead. Multiple teams are deployed to apprehend the assailants and police are investigating all possible angles,” said Brijesh Kumar Gautam, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Jaunpur.
The incident happened under the limits of Sikrara police station.