batala four persons of a single family were allegedly shot dead while they were irrigating their fields in ballarwal village in gurdaspur district on sunday morningthose killed are identified as two brothers mangal singh 70 jasbir singh 35 sukhwinder singh 40 and babbaldeep singh 21two persons sustained injuries who were first rushed to a government hospital from where they were referred to amritsar hospital their condition is reported to be seriousillicit relations and land disputes are reported to be the two possible reasons behind the early morning shootouthowever senior superintendent of police ssp batala police district rachpal singh said that they were working on different theories the preliminary investigations also point towards the illicit relationship of a daughter of an alleged accused with the deceased which could have possibly sparked the incident he said police had rounded out several personsmanjit kaur one of the deceaseds relatives alleged that the family had a land dispute with soni and jyoti which escalated after the family members of late mangal singh went to irrigate the fields at around 6 am on sundayharman singh one of the injured persons alleged that the accused were indiscriminately firing towards anyone working in the field ssp rachpal singh informed that police had registered a case at police station sri hargobindpur and begun investigations