Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police have arrested a key suspect in the October 19 shooting of advocate Manjunath B, 43, outside his residence in Whitefield.
The suspect, Amit Kumar Dubey, 25, was arrested in Baksa village in Bihar. DCP (Whitefield) Saidulu Adavath confirmed that a transit warrant has been obtained to bring him to Bengaluru for detailed interrogation. A second suspect, Pawan Kumar Dubey, remains at large. Both men worked as delivery executives in the city and were tenants of the victim, the post said.
According to the post, Manjunath reportedly owned several acres of land in Pattandur Agrahara and rented out more than 100 sheds. It said an argument over rent broke out at 10.30 pm, and that at around 11.30 pm the two men arrived on a bike, called him outside and one of them shot him in the forehead at close range. Eight special police teams were deployed across Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Delhi, West Bengal and Bihar, and police are examining whether the killing was a spontaneous escalation or a pre-planned contract killing.
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