India, April 10 -- Janata Dal (United) (JDU) leader Kaushal Singh was shot dead on National Highway-107 near Chautham village late on Wednesday while he was returning home with his wife, police said.

50-year-old Singh, a native of Medninagar in Bihar's Khagaria district, was a district level general secretary of the ruling party in Bihar.

According to police, the incident took place around 9:45pm when Kaushal and his wife, who was a former district board member, were returning home on a motorcycle. As soon as they arrived near Madhya Baurne panchayat, motorcycle-borne assailants intercepted him and fatally shot him multiple times.

Locals then took Singh to Sadar Hospital where he was referred to a private hospital where he succumbed to...