The Bagalur police on Friday have arrested four men on charges of hatching a conspiracy to kill an HR manager of a private company after one of the accused was sacked from his job.
The prime accused, Madhu, 30, was an employee of a company that manufactures defence equipment. According to the police, Madhu violated the norms of the company by shooting videos on its premises.
Madhu suspected that sacking him from his job was the HR manager’s idea and plotted to kill him. He roped in four friends — Pramod, Alexander D, Chinnaraju T, and Imran Pasha — got them fully drunk and they decided to kill Rajashekar Rai.
The management asked the HR manager, Rajashekar Rai, to sack Madhu for his act. An enraged Madhu hatched a conspiracy along with his friends to murder Rai on March 8.
Rai was attacked on March 8 while he was returning home in his car. Rai, who managed to escape, approached the Bagalur police. However, Rai’s ordeal did not end there.
Around 8 pm on March 8, the gang intercepted Rai’s car at BK Palya Cross near Bagalur. Brandishing machetes and other lethal weapons, the gang tried to attack Rai but his chauffeur showed great presence of mind by quickly locking up the vehicle’s doors. He then reversed the car and drove off. The gang still managed to injure the driver and smash the car’s windows.
The chauffeur drove straight to the Bagalur police station, about 8 km away. But the gang followed the car and escaped only after seeing Rai walk into the police station. Rai filed a police complaint but said he didn’t know who had tried to kill him.
Rai filed a police complaint but said he didn’t know who had tried to kill him and why. He, however, suspected that Madhu may have something to do with it as he had been sacked from the firm two months earlier.
Police registered a case of attempted murder and took Rai and the chauffeur to the crime scene. By then, some three hours had passed. Rai reached his RR Nagar home only around midnight.
The accused were waiting for Rai at his residence in Rajarajeshwarinagar and attacked him once again.
But his late arrival put paid to the plans as the attackers, sloshed to the gills, lost their resolve and fell asleep in the car. They woke up only in the morning and abandoned the plan.
Police eventually tracked down all of them. Madhu was picked up from his native village of Sadahalli near Sidlaghatta, Chikkaballapur district, while the other suspects were apprehended from Puducherry.
