<p class="title">A local BSP leader was shot dead by unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shokat, 40, was returning to his village from Shamli on Tuesday night when motorcycle-borne men fatally shot him near Harar Fatehpur village, Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Srivastava said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was a former BSP general secretary of Baghra area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body has been sent for post-mortem and the search for the accused is on, the officer added. </p>
<p class="title">A local BSP leader was shot dead by unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shokat, 40, was returning to his village from Shamli on Tuesday night when motorcycle-borne men fatally shot him near Harar Fatehpur village, Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Srivastava said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was a former BSP general secretary of Baghra area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body has been sent for post-mortem and the search for the accused is on, the officer added. </p>