In a shocking incident, a man was shot in the head by unknown bikers in broad daylight at Chandadevi on the Bhimtal Road here on Thursday. The youth shot succumbed to the injury before he was brought to the hospital. At the time of the incident, the man was returning from Bhimtal towards Haldwani along with a woman.

According to information received from sources, Banbhulpura resident Nazim Kham, aged 31 years had come to the Bhimtal Road with a woman friend of his on a two-wheeler.  At about 3:30 PM, he was returning with his lady friend to Haldwani on the two-wheeler. At Chandadevi, bikers stopped the two-wheeler he was riding and shot him point blank in the head near his right eye. The assailants escaped from the site after Nazim was shot.  As the shot man fell on the ground, his lady friend signalled a jeep from the direction of Bhimtal to stop after which the shot man was transported to a hospital on Nainital Road. The doctors declared him dead after he was brought to the hospital.

Using his mobile phone, the woman called up Nazim’s family members, telling them that he had met with an accident and asked them to reach the hospital. It was stated that on November 27 last year, Nazim had married a Rampur Tanda resident lady. The senior superintendent of police and other officer also reached the site on being informed about the murder. The woman accompanying Nazim was also taken into custody. The body was sent for post mortem. If sources are to be believed, the cause of the murder is an ‘illicit’ relationship. However, the police are investigating and the exact details of the whole incident are expected to be known later.