BENGALURU: Gangster turned writer Agni Sridhar’s residence was on Tuesday raided by city police on charges of threatening two people, a politician and a businessman, with their life. Senior police officials also suspected that Agni Sridhar had sheltered the prime accused involved in the ambush on Dasanapura Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) president Kadabagere Srinivas last Friday.
The politician Tata Ramesh had on Wednesday complained to Yelahanka police against Sridhar regarding the life threat. Based on information that Sridhar was also harbouring a Rohit alias Onte, a close associate of Silent Sunila, prime accused in the murder attempt on Srinivas, police raided his house.
Kadabagere Srinivas who is the president of Dasanapura APMC, was shot by miscreants while he was travelling in a Scorpio with two others, but escaped with minor injuries. The complainant Tata Ramesh, is a close associate of Srinivas Kadabagere.
Senior officials believe that Rohith had taken the contract to plot Srinivas’ murder and are questioning gangster Sridhar and one of his close aides Bachhan, over the case.
Yelahanka police on Monday had arrested one of the suspects Sathish, who is close to Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath and who during the interrogation, spilled the information on Rohith.