Jalandhar, Dec. 21 -- A day after a 33-year-old scrap shop owner was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jalandhar's Shahkot, a US-based NRI was booked for hiring contract killers to eliminate the victim, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Jagpreet Singh alias Jaggi, a native of Rajewal village in Shahkot sub-division. Deceased Sandeep Hans was shot point blank in his shop on Friday evening.

Balwinder Singh, SHO of the Shahkot police station, said a probe revealed that Jagpreet had been threatening Sandeep after he married his (Jagpreet's) former female friend Kajal (as mentioned in the FIR) on November 6. "In his statement, Surinderpal, younger brother of the deceased, told police that Sandeep was receiving ...