A 77- year-old former vice chancellor of the Karnataka University was shot down at his residence in the north Karnataka town of Dharwad on Sunday morning by two persons who knocked on his door and claimed to be students.

M M Kalaburgi, 77, an educationist and veteran researcher of Kannada literature was shot down at around 8.40 AM on Sunday even as his wife who opened the door for the unidentified assailants ventured to the kitchen to fetch the visitors some coffee.

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