In a daylight attack a marble mine owner, Saifuddin Azad (62) was shot at and died en route to the Sadar hospital here, Saturday evening.
The DSP PR Barwar said that the victim was going home at Nawa Toli in Daltonganj when a shooter hit him. A long standing property dispute with regard to marble mine is said to be behind the murder. The police are on the trail of one Md Irshad whom the deceased met in a hotel here today and Irshad has since then vanished.