A top leader of India's opposition nationalist Hindu party was shot and critically wounded on Saturday by his brother in Mumbai in an apparent property dispute, police said.
Pramod Mahajan, a senior general secretary of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was rushed to a hospital with several bullet wounds and doctors immediately operated on him, police and party members said.
"He was shot at by his brother just at the entrance of his (Pramod Mahajan's) residence," Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy told AFP, adding the brother had turned himself in to police.
"We understand it (the shooting) is regarding a family property matter," he said.
Doctors said three bullets were lodged in Mahajan's body and could not be removed because of massive blood loss.
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