The Doddaballapura rural police shot at a 35-year-old rowdy sheeter after he allegedly attacked a constable while trying to evade arrest on Friday.
The accused Srinivasa alias Mitte, was involved in a brutal murder of his 27-year-old rival identified as Hemanth Kumar Gowda, 27, and took his body in a car around the area to send message to his rival gang on May 11 and was on the run since then.
The police had registered a complaint and tracked down Srinivasa who was hiding at his village in Sriramanahalli near Yelahanka . A special team led by Inspector Sadiq Pasha reached the village to secure his arrest, but the accused in a bid to escape allegedly attacked Chandrashekar.
