In a brazen challenge to law and order in Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh, unidentified assailants shot dead a man just 300 meters away from the Khajuria police station. The deceased, Mohammad Sharif, was earlier sentenced to death by a sessions court in the 2007 CRPF camp attack case, though the Allahabad High Court later set aside the death penalty. On Tuesday, after completing his police verification at the station, Sharif was returning home with his son on a motorcycle when two masked bike-borne assailants fired four bullets at him, killing him on the spot.
