Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The whitefield police cracked the shoot out case and arrested three shooters from Prakasham district of Andhra Pradesh who along with their one more associate opened fire at a rowdy turned realtor and his car driver in a bis to kill them in Seegehalli on Thursday.
Fear gripped among the residents of Happy garden in Seegehalli in broad day light when the assailant confronted Shivashankar Reddy and his associate Ashok Reddy and opened fire indiscriminately before speding away.
Shivashankar Reddy had come to inspect the apartment he was constructing and was talking to a neighbor when the incident occured .
The Injured Shivashankar and Ashok were rushed to hospital and survived while the whitefield division police swung into action and formed a three special teams to probe the shoot out.
Initial probe revealed that Shivashankar Reddy is a notorious rowdy having as many as nine criminal cases pending against him.His family from Tambalapalli in Chittor having arch rivalry with his neighbour Byyareddy and eventually killed him in 2011 .
In retaliation Byyareddy family killed Shivashankar’s father Jayachandra Reddy and attacked Shivashankar before he could retaliate .
They stalked Shivashankar Reddy armed with country made weapons and carried out the attack before fleeing .
However the special team of police tracked their movements and arrested three of the attacker from Mundaluru town in Prakasham district while efforts are on to track down others,S Girish,DCP, Whitefield said.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy,has appreciated Addl CP East,A subramanyeshwara Rao,DCP Whitefield,Girish S,ACP,Shanthamallapa, PI,Shanthram,PSIs,as,Naveen Kumar AV,Dharnesh KL,and crime staff as,Muniraju, Suresh,Basavaraj,Sandesh,Shivakumar and others has been appreciated for their excellent work and presence of mind in nabbing dreaded gang and for the commendable job done by them a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.