Delhi doctor shot dead

A cardiologist was gunned down here early Wednesday by unidentified assailants, police said. A man has been arrested in the case.

Sanjeev Dhawan, 43, was fatally shot at around 2.45 a.m. in his Rajinder Nagar residence in central Delhi.

He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A man named Dharmendra Kumar has been arrested for the murder, said a police officer.

Dhawan was working as a cardiologist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajinder Nagar.