India, June 28 -- In a shocking incident caught on camera, a Ludhiana-based elderly businessman, Kuldeep Singh Mundia, was hacked to death on the busy Dhandra Road near the Missing Link 2 Highway in the city on Friday night.

The incident, which was captured on video by a passerby and later circulated on social media, shows a man using a sword to hit Mundia multiple times.

The reason behind the incident is not yet known. "Police are conducting raids in search of the accused. They will be arrested soon," Sadar police station house officer Avneet Kaur said.

Mundia was a personal assistant of the late Jagdev Singh Talwandi, a former member of Parliament from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

He was travelling in his car from his farmhouse wh...