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LUDHIANA: A farmer was shot dead at Sidhwan Khurd village in Ludhiana’s Jagraon on Friday evening. The Sadar Jagraon police have booked unidentified people in the case.
Forty-two-year-old Randhir Singh Dhira was a successful agriculture and dairy farmer; he also farmed a piece of land belonging to a college after taking it on contract. The deceased traded in cattle as well.
Family members of the deceased told police that Randhir was at home when an acquaintance of his came and told him that two people had come to buy cattle from him.
He went along with them in a car. They took Randhir to a motor room in his fields where they shot him dead after a scuffle, the family members said.