{"id":10331,"date":"2020-10-12T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:17:30","slug":"uttarakhand-bjp-councillor-shot-dead-in-front-of-his-house-in-kumaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10331","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand BJP councillor shot dead in front of his house in Kumaon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>City Bell Live | Janhavi Patil |<\/strong> \ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>BJP councillor of Rudrapur municipal corporation, Prakash Dhami was shot dead in front of his house on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A BJP councillor of Rudrapur municipal corporation was shot dead in front of his house on Monday morning by some unidentified men in Udham Singh Nagar district, police said.<br>According to the police, the unidentified assailants came in a car and the murder was due to old enmity<br>Daleep Singh Kunwar, senior superintendent of police (SSP), US Nagar, said, \u201cSome car-borne miscreants arrived at the councillor\u2019s house and called him out, As he reached near the car, the miscreant opened fire on him and fled from the spot.\u201d<br>Prakash Dhami 40, a resident of Agrasen Nagar, Bhadaipura was councillor in Rudrapur municipal corporation. The killers arrived at his residence around 8 am.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDhami tried to run for his safety but the miscreants chased him and fired at him again\u201d, the SSP said.<br>Dhami was rushed to a private hospital and later to a district hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. He was elected as councillor unopposed in 2018 from ward 13. Later he joined BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-24-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10304\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Bell Live | Janhavi Patil | \ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37 BJP councillor of Rudrapur municipal corporation, Prakash Dhami was shot dead in front of his house on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}