Rohtak, April 10 -- Two brothers were shot dead by a group of five to six persons over a land dispute in Jind on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.

The deceased have been identified as Satish Kumar, 44, and his elder brother Dilbagh Singh, 50, of Jind's Nirjan village. The duo used to run a liquor petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder agency on Safidon road in Jind.

Satish's son, Mohit Kumar, in his police complaint, said that his father and uncle were beaten up by another resident of the village, Suresh Kumar, and his son, with whom his family had been in a long-drawn land dispute, which is pending in the court. The assault, he said, took place around 8 pm on Tuesday.

"After the assault, we went to the Jind Sadar poli...