BENGALURU, Feb. 12 -- State home minister, G Parameshwara called on Canadian authorities to take firm legal action after a 37-year-old technology professional from Karnataka was shot dead in Toronto in what police believe was a targeted attack.

The victim, identified by Toronto Police as Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar of Brampton, was shot on Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Woodbine Shopping Centre near Rexdale Boulevard and Highway 27.

Officers responding to a 3.31pm call found him with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.

The suspects fled in a vehicle, and the circumstances behind the shooting remain unclear, though investigators believe it was a targeted inciden...