patna a 57yearold ward councillor was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in a vegetable market under barh police station area in patna district on saturday morning the deceased was identified as parmanand sinha who was elected from ward number 22 of barhaccording to police the incident took place around 7am near old godown in bazaar samiti when the councillor went to buy vegetables in a crowded market the bikeborne armed miscreants shot the victim in the head and managed to escape from the spot the locals could not understand because of the hustlebustle but when parmanand fell on the ground and started bleeding profusely then people rushed to his aid on being informed local police rushed to the spot and sent the body to subdivisional hospital barh for postmortembarh sho dhananjay kumar said the police have recovered a countrymade pistol and two live cartridges near the body it was not clear that how many miscreants carried out the crime as no one heard the gunshot because of the noise in the market the miscreants might have shot the councillor from the close range in the head that resulted in his on the spot death he said the sho told this newspaper that prima facie it appears that the incident was carried out due to a property dispute or political rivalry