LUCKNOW, May 11 -- The Rae Bareli police on Sunday arrested two brothers who allegedly hatched a conspiracy to get their father eliminated after the duo were denied rights in property. Enraged over their father's decision to disinherit them, the two brothers hired shooters to commit the crime a few days ago while the duo remained 600 km away in Delhi, police said.

Confirming it, circle officer of Salon in Rae Bareli Yadvendra Bahadur Pal said two unidentified assailants opened fire on Ratipal Sahu, 58, when he along with his wife Ramwati Sahu was returning home from his farm near Pasdepur village under Deeh police station limits on May 6.

In the incident, Ratipal Sahu suffered a bullet wound in his thigh. He has been undergoing treatmen...