Hyderabad: The ex-Greyhound policeman who opened fire from a stolen AK-47 on K Nityananda Reddy at KBR park on Wednesday has been arrested, police said.
Obulesh, who is currently posted with the excise department, had served as an ex-Greyhound constable earlier. He was arrested by the police at the Kurnool-Anantapur district border on Wednesday night from a Bengaluru-bound bus.
The police identified the attacker as Obulesh and arrested him after tracking him through his mobile phone signals.
Three others were also arrested in the case.
They arrested are being brought to Hyderabad and are likely to be produced before the media in the afternoon or evening, police sources said.
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The constable, who was serving at Central Police Lines (CPL) Amberpet here, was earlier attached with Greyhounds, the elite anti-Maoist force and was allegedly involved in stealing AK-47.
After checking CCTV footage of a super bazaar in Mehdipatnam, police probing the KBR firing incident had decided that it was a clear case of extortion or kidnap for ransom wherein an ex-cop who had got hold of a missing Greyhounds AK-47, had become an “amateur extortionist”.
Investigators had suspected the role of a repatriated policeman, identified as Obuleshu of Greyhounds, since the sketch and CCTV footage showed similarities. The man was posted with the Excise Department and was reportedly on a 15-day earned leave.
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Police, with the help of CID portrait makers, made a sketch of the suspect based on the CCTV footage and inputs given by the industrialist and eye witnesses and had sent a lookout notice after the attack.
A month-old bill found in the bag of the assailant led the investigators to TT Super Bazaar near pillar number 22 in Mehdipatnam where the suspect had purchased provisions. The police retrieved the CCTV footage of the suspect who was wearing a Reebok cap. Industrialist K. Nityananda Reddy also said that the person in the CCTV looked like the man who had tried to kidnap him.
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The cap was also found in the bag that the assailant left at the scene of the offence along with a T-shirt and other articles like a soft drink bottle.
