A 40-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified robbers on Sunday late night in Noida Sector-66. The deceased has been identified as Rajendar Sharma(40), a resident of Noida Sector-8. He owned a furniture business in Sector-66.
Police said the incident took place around 9 pm when he was returning home from his shop. Two unidentified people on a bike overtook him and tried to rob him, police said. When he resisted, they shot him and fled from the spot, police said.
Passerbys informed the incident to police and he was rushed to Noida’s Fortis Hospital. He was shot in head and later succumbed to his injury on Monday afternoon. Police have sent the body for postmortem and filed an FIR against two unknown persons.