Event manager shot dead in Bangalore

Even as the Bangalore police was busy probing the foiled UK terror strike, two unidentified assailants entered the office of an event management company in the busy upmarket Indiranagar on Tuesday evening and shot dead its 38-year-old Managing Director.

Additional Commissioner of Bangalore City Police Bipin Gopalakrishna said the two unidentified persons, who arrived at the second floor office of Bangalore Convention and Trade Fair Limited in Indiranagar along with its Managing Director Madhusudan Aravind, had a long conversation with him before pumping bullets into him.

The assailants, who spoke English with a Malayali accent, had fired three shots with a low caliber .22 revolver at his chest and hands, Gopalakrishna said. After spraying bullets at the victim, the duo hurriedly walked out of the office and made good their escape in a getaway vehicle.

Madhusudan’s company is engaged in organizing events for software companies and designing posters for several government organizations.

According to Sanjana, an employee, who was in the office when Madhusudan brought the two unidentified visitors in his own car, the incident took place when most of the employees were preparing to leave office. As she was waiting downstairs along with other employees, she heard Madhusudan argue with the visitors. Suddenly, gun shots were heard and the two visitors came down hurriedly and went out of the building.

“I climbed the staircase and reached Madhusudan’s office only to find him lying in a pool of blood. I called out for help and alerted the police. But, by the time help came, it was too late”, she said.

Gopalkrishna said the victim, who was a native of Palakkad in Kerala, had been receiving threatening calls from the owners of a hotel on Queens Road in Bangalore. “We are investigating in this direction and hope to get to the root of the matter soon”, he said.

However, the cold-blooded murder of a young managing director of an event management company has shaken the posh and upscale neighbourhood, which is home to celebrities and bureaucrats.

The deceased Madhusudan is survived by his wife Lakshmi and a five-month-old baby, police said.