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Senior Hindu party leader shot, critically wounded INDIA, Saturday (AFP) A top leader of India's opposition nationalist Hindu party was shot and critically wounded yesterday 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 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. "He is still in the intensive care unit of the hospital and on ventilator support," said Anupam Verma, director of administration at Hinduja Hospital. "His condition can be termed quite critical." The bullets "shattered the liver, the pancreas, the intestines," said doctor Sudhanshu Bhattacharya after a four-hour operation. A lawyer for Praveen Mahajan, the brother in police custody, said his client was suffering from mental illness and rejected reports that the two brothers were estranged or that there was any property dispute between them. "He is completely under a depression, under a mental trauma," said Nandkumar Rajukar. The brothers "had a very good relationship," he said.
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