Doctor shot dead at clinic in New Delhi

May 14, 2016 12:33

A 61-year-old doctor was shot dead at his clinic in south-west Delhi's Palam area by an unidentified assailant, police said today.

The victim has been identified as Balwant Singh, a general physician, who has a clinic at Palam village.

Singh was getting some renovation done in his single-room clinic and as he was about to leave for home after the workers left at around 10 PM yesterday, a person approached him, fired a round and fled, a senior police official said.

Police teams rushed to the spot and a case of murder was registered. Efforts are on to nab the accused, DCP (Southwest) Surender Kumar said.

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