Lucknow, April 10 -- A 35-year-old lab technician was allegedly shot dead by the lab operator's son following a dispute at a family-run blood bank in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district in the early hours of Friday, police said.

According to police officers, the accused, Shivesh Singh (40), and the deceased, Satish Yadav, were both working at the same blood bank and pathology laboratory operating from the ground floor of a two-storey house in the Naipalapur locality when Singh opened fire.

Yadav, a resident of Azamgarh, had reportedly been working as a lab technician at the blood bank for two months after moving to Sitapur following his resignation from a hospital in Lucknow.

Shivesh looked after the day-to-day operations and management o...