Two masked gunmen on motorbikes fired on Shah, chairman of
Channel
the satellite Space Time Network, as he was traveling in a car near the French
Embassy in
Police told local media that Shah had been shot twice in the head and once in
the chest.
Shah died an hour later while being treated at a nearby
hospital, news reports said. Shah’s driver, Mathura Man Malakar, suffered a
thigh wound. Police told reporters that they had not determined a motive for
the shooting.
Shah had business interests in several fields but was best known
for his media companies. He considered the first to introduce private cable
television to
in 2001. His satellite network controlled virtually all of the distribution of
foreign TV channels in
according to news reports.