The attacker left behind an AK 47 gun in the rear seat of the Audi car, police said.
A man armed with an AK-47 tried to kidnap a top industrialist in Hyderabad from his car this morning.
K Nityananda Reddy, Vice Chairman of Aurobindo Pharma, had finished his morning walk at a little after 7 am in the popular KBR park in the fancy Banjara Hills area. After he sat in his car, a man pushed his way into the white Audi from the left into the front seat, took out an AK-47 from a bag and pointed it at him.
"I told him 'if you want I will give you money', even as I pushed the nozzle of the gun towards the roof of the car and shouted for help,'' Mr Reddy told NDTV.
His brother, Prasad, saw Mr Reddy wrestling with the intruder and rushed to the car to intervene. Three bullets were fired inside the car. The two men managed to overpower the assailant and pull him outside the car where at least five more shots were fired. Nobody was injured.
Prasad Reddy held the attacker from behind, but he bit Mr Reddy and ran away, leaving behind his AK-47 and a bag with clothes.
Mr Reddy said he did not recognise the assailant and is unable to guess why he was attacked.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahendar Reddy said the Ak-47 had been reported lost a few months ago by the Greyhounds - an elite commando force in the state.
How the AK-47 got into the hands of the assailant, what was his motive is not clear yet. "We have several clues and hope to crack this at the earliest,'' the police chief said.
Sreedhar, an eyewitness, claims he saw the attacker leaving the park. "He did not look in a panic or hurry, it was almost as though he was jogging away casually,'' he told NDTV.