The incident took place on the Turkadih bypass under Sakri police station limits, said Additional Superintende🦂nt of Police (ASP🍃) Rajendra Jaiswal.
A 38-year-old man facing more than two dozen criminal cases was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, police said.
The incident took place on the Turkadih bypass under Sakri police station limits, said Additional Superintende🦂nt of Police (ASP🍃) Rajendra Jaiswal.
The assistants opened indiscriminate fire at Sanju Tripathi, a resident of Bilaspur, at around 4:15𒆙 pm when he was travelling in a four-wheeler, said the ASP, adding the victim died on the spot.
Twenty-seven criminal cases were pend♕ing aga🥂inst the deceased, he said.
On being informed about the firing incident, a police team accompanied by senior officials rushed to the spot, said Jaiswal and added an extensive search was launched t🍎o nab the unidentified assailants.
Bilaspur District Congress Committee president Vijay Kesharwani said as per his information Tripathi was once active in the Youth Congress, but he was not holding any post in the pa꧑rty at present.