A restaurant owner claimed that two bike-borne persons fired at him while he was returning home in his car at Rajendranagar late on Monday night.
Thirty-two-year-old Shahbuddin, owner of Maks Kitchen, told the police that he was heading home after collecting cash from the restaurant when two men rode in on a Yamaha bike, waved their hands to stop his car as he reached a secluded place at A.G. Colony in Upparpally.
“The hotelier maintained that sensing danger he stepped on the accelerator and tried to speed away while the duo chased his car,” Rajendranagar Inspector S. Venkat Reddy said on Tuesday. Shahbuddin told the police that the two persons fired at his car from close range, apparently in a bid to kill him and he heard sound similar to that of crackers bursting twice.
After traversing some distance and making sure that no one was following him, he pulled over his car and rang up the Cyberabad police control room. Police patrol teams in and around the area rushed to the point. By then, the duo had disappeared. Efforts to track the bike with two riders proved futile.
Two cartridges of the bullets believed to have been fired by the attackers were recovered from the spot. They are of 8 mm calibre. The restaurant owner had disputes with some persons and was fighting a court case about some land at Sogbowli village in Ranga Reddy district. Shahbuddin had applied for a firearm licence.
