A man was shot at near Kathapola on the Puri-Bhubaneswar National Highway allegedly over past enmity on Sunday morning.
The victim was admitted to the Puri District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition before being shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack as a bullet was still lodged in his thigh.
He was identified as Gangadhar Bhol (47), a resident of Batagaon in Puri district. According to reports, Gangadhar was shot by seven to eight miscreants, who came by bikes at around 8 am when he was going to his brick kiln near Kathapola. He fell down after a bullet hit his thigh.