Local Congress leader’s brother shot dead in Ludhiana after ‘argument over Rs 120 bill’

“Last night, around 10.30 pm, three men came on a bike posing as customers and ordered some food. When asked to pay the Rs 120 bill, they entered an argument with the workers, and then my brother intervened. The situation escalated, and they brandished a revolver and opened fire at my brother. He suffered a bullet injury near his heart and died on the spot,” said Anuj, general secretary, Ludhiana district Congress committee.

Previously with the Youth Congress, Anuj, 40, said his brother Amit was present at the tavern as the manager was on sick leave Monday.

“We suspect he might have been targeted by the killers who came posing as customers. Their bike did not have a number plate. Even after my brother was taken away to a hospital, they came back and took a round outside the tavern,” said Anuj.

Anuj said they suspect some people are behind the killing and have given their names to the police.

Inspector Gurmukh Singh, Station House Officer, Sahnewal police station, said an FIR for murder has been registered on the complaint of Pramod Kumar, another elder brother of the deceased.

“According to the family, the argument happened over the bill amount of Rs 120 or so, but we are probing all angles,” said Inspector Singh.

Amit was the youngest of five brothers, survived by his wife and two children: a son and a daughter.