Datia, March 31 -- A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor was shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified assailants in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district on Tuesday, a police officer said.

The councillor has been identified as Kallu Kushwaha and he was shot near Seondha Chungi area around 9 am in the district.

Datia Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Akansha Jain said, "We received information at around 9 am this morning that a murder incident occurred near the Seondha Chungi area. Acting on it, we reached the spot and learned that the deceased has been identified as Kallu Kushwaha. Thereafter, we sent the body to the district hospital for postmortem and collected evidence from the spot."

The police began an investigation into th...