Dehradun, February 11 A 42-year-old businessman was shot dead, allegedly by two scooter-borne assailants, in broad daylight here on Wednesday, police said, adding that the deceased's wife has alleged her mother-in-law's involvement in the incident.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the deceased, Arjun Sharma, owner of Amardeep Gas Agency, had a family dispute, and his mother, Bina Sharma, had sought protection from the Uttarakhand High Court, citing a threat to her life from him.
Dehradun City Superintendent of Police Pramod Kumar said that the incident occurred around 10:30 am outside a temple in the Tibetan Market, when Arjun Sharma, a resident of Indira Nagar in the Vasant Vihar area, was about to get into his car to go home after coming out of the stadium after playing tennis.
Kumar said that two assailants on a scooter opened fire on Sharma. He was taken to Doon Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Meanwhile, the deceased's wife, Abhilasha Sharma, has submitted a complaint, suspecting four people, including her mother-in-law, of murdering her husband.
In the complaint, Abhilasha stated that Bina Sharma had financial dealings with Vinod Uniyal, his wife, Sangeeta Uniyal, and Dr Ajay Khanna, owner of SK Memorial Hospital, which her husband, the deceased, opposed, and that she had a dispute with her mother over this issue.
In her complaint, Abhilasha expressed suspicion that these individuals had her husband murdered due to this dispute.
Police stated that based on the complaint, they have registered a case.
This is the second murder in Dehradun city in just 10 days. Previously, on February 2, a man allegedly murdered a 22-year-old woman by slitting her throat with a sharp-edged weapon in Machhi Bazaar.
Taking the incident seriously, Inspector General of Police, Garhwal Range, Rajiv Swaroop, inspected the scene and directed the Dehradun SSP to arrest the murderers and develop a concrete strategy to prevent such incidents from recurring in the future.
