MEERUT, Nov. 6 -- A 30-year-old farmer was shot dead by his neighbour following a long-standing dispute over a field boundary on the Badaun-Shahjahanpur border on Wednesday evening, police said on Thursday. The incident was captured on the victim's mobile phone, revealing how the confrontation unfolded.

The deceased, Arvesh Yadav, lived in Usawan town with his wife and their five children. He owned around eight bighas of farmland in the Parour police station area of Shahjahanpur. On Wednesday evening, after dinner, he went to his farm, where his uncle was ploughing the field with a tractor.

According to eyewitnesses, Arvesh was sitting by the field boundary when his neighbour Kallu, who owns an adjoining six-bigha plot, began cutting th...