According to the police, the deceased was identified as Jai Narayan Gupta who was sitting at his electrical shop in the area when two unidentified men came on a bike and pumped bullets in his chest at around 8 pm last night and fled.
Narayan's elder son Manoj, who was on the first floor of the shop, heard the sound and thought it to be fireworks explosion, police said.
However, Manoj's wife, who had gone to the nearby market, saw Narayan lying in a pool of blood and raised an alarm. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead, the official said.