A 58-year-old man was allegedly shot dead by his nephew for objecting to his drinking habits in Muzaffarnagar district on Monday, police said.
The accused, Vipin Kumar, has been arrested for shooting his uncle dead in the fields in Muzaffarnagar, a police officer said.
The gun used to commit the crime has been recovered and the body sent for post-mortem, the officer added.
M Siddiq, one of the original litigants of the Ayodhya case, had assailed certain findings of the 1994 verdict in the case of M Ismail Faruqui holding that a mosque was not integral to the prayers offered by the followers of Islam.
Balwant Singh Rajoana, the death row convict in the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case, on Friday ended his hunger strike in the Patiala central jail following a meeting with the SGPC chief.
The local police on Wednesday arrested a 36-year-old pastor from the Delhi airport on a charge of raping a woman follower, making a video of the act and then blackmailing her by threatening to upload the video on social networking sites.
The Union Territory of Chandigarh—the joint capital of Haryana and Punjab—remains one of the most contentious and long-standing issues between the two neighbouring states.
The home minister also asserted that the government is committed to providing justice to the aggrieved Sikh community, which suffered the most during 1984 carnage.
Resuming his speech after a break forced by disruptions, Rahul Gandhi said that members of the ruling coalition also appreciated his speech.