Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Residents of Hampasandra in Chikkabalapur
district woke up to the gun shots and chaos and noticed a villager opened fire at his elder brother and nephew killing one of them on the spot in the early hours of Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Nazeer Ahamad ,60,while his father Mahaboob sab,90,a farmer by profession sustained severe injuries .
The accused,Bashir Ahamad 65,according to police is uncle of Nazeer and attacked him while he got out of the house and heading to the morning prayers hearing the gun shot and commotion,Mahboob Sab rushed to his son’s rescue and confronted Basheer who tried to shot him and later attacked him with machate he was carrying and fled the scene.
The Gudibande police rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to the hospital where the doctor declared Nazeer Ahmed as Brought dead while Mahboob Sab was shifted to NIMHANS where he is being treated.
Meanwhile after attacking the duo,Basheer headed to Bagepalli with an intention to kill his wife and children, who were at her parental home.
But,by then,his wife Shahida had come to know of what had happened in Hampasandra over phone and did not open the door.Basheer was later arrested by the Bagepalli police .
Probe revealed that Basheer Ahmed who is younger brother of Mahboob Sab had dispute over ancestral property.He was working in Saudi Arabia and returned few years ago to settle down.
Chikkaballapur SP,Kushal Choksi who visited the spot said that Mehboobsab had four sibling and Basheer was youngest among them .
“There was a property dispute in the family.Early on Wednesday,Basheer first fired at Nazeer with a country made pistol and also attacked him with a machete, killing him on the spot.
He then tried to fire at Mehboobsab who came out of the house,but as the pistol did not fire,he attacked Mehboobsab with the same machete.
He then went to Bagepalli and tried to attack the wife, but the police caught him and recovered the weapons”.
During questioning,Basheer told the police that he did not get the rightful share of their ancestral property due to which he attacked his elder brother and nephew.
He also said that he suspected his wife of infidelity and hence wanted to kill her and their children.
Basheer,worked as a tailor in Saudi Arabia and returned two years ago.He had allegedly planned to carry out the killings few years ago and had even gone to Bihar where he bought a country made pistol and did target practice .
The gun did not work and he had to give up his plan. Recently, he had purchased another pistol with which he shot his nephew.
The Gudibande police have registered a case of murder, attempt to murder and also under arms act against Basheer and taken him into custody for further investigation.
