India, April 15 -- Unidentified assailants shot dead a 29-year-old readymade garment shop owner in the Dharamkot subdivision of Moga on Wednesday afternoon.

The deceased, identified as Gurpreet Singh Garry, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to his forehead inside his Mahindra Scorpio near Pandori village on the Moga-Jalandhar highway.

Family sources confirmed that Garry had been receiving extortion calls from gangsters and had recently been provided with a police gunman. However, the security personnel was not accompanying the victim at the time of the attack for unspecified reasons.

Garry's father, Kulwant Singh, told reporters that his son had left his shop to get his SUV washed at a nearby workshop. "We were worried as he did not...