Sensation prevailed in parts of Bengaluru on Friday (February 3) after the Nelamangala Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) president Srinivas Murthy had been shot by unidentified assailants at Kogilu Junction in Yelahanka in the northern part of Bengaluru around 11:30 am.
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Local police sources told International Business Times, India, that he had been rushed to a hospital in Hebbal. Top police personnel had also reached the spot as well as the hospital. What has shocked many is the manner in which the victim was shot at least three-four times not in the darkness of the night but in broad daylight and near a busy junction. The police have managed to recover a few shell-casings from the incident.
Details emerged later that Murthy was travelling in a car when three people on a motorcycle shot him at Kogilu junction. He was rushed to hospital with serious injuries. How the police failed to stop three people riding a bike will be a question the personnel posted locally will have to answer later. For now, they are reportedly studying CCTV footage from the area to try and identify the assailants.
There are reports of a second person also getting injured in the shooting. Whether this was the driver of the car Murthy was travelling in is not confirmed yet. The details of the extent of the injuries of both Murthy and the second person are also to emerge.
