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Patiala: Unidentified assailants shot dead Swaran Singh Saini, a former superintending engineer of the public works department and father-in-law of Makfed MD and senior IAS officer Varun Roojam. “He was shot in the head and two more bullets were fired at his chest on close range. His son left for Chandigarh and Saini stayed back to settle some affairs in the village. The killing took place at Uksi Sainyyan village on the Rajpura-Sirhind stretch of NH 44 at around 11.30am on Sunday.Swaran, 71, was near his ancestral Uksi Sainyyan village, 5 km from Rajpura. A .32 bore pistol was used in the crime, which took place on outskirts of the village,” police said.Police said preliminary investigations revealed that someone stopped Swaran Singh on the national highway and opened fire..