Neeraj BaliChandigarh, Oct. 22 -- A 40-year-old man was shot dead by two masked motorcycle-borne assailants in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Wednesday evening, hours after being released from police custody, in what investigators suspect was a revenge killing linked to a deadly rivalry between criminal gangs, police said.
The victim, identified as Kuldeep Singh, a house painter from Naushehra Pannuan village, was on his way to a barber's shop at around 6:30 p.m. when the attackers opened fire and fled.
Gangsters identifying themselves as Landa Harike and Satta Naushehra claimed responsibility for the killing in a social media post, describing it as retaliation for the October 11 murder of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Iqbal Singh.
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