Bengaluru: In an incident that has sent shockwaves through Sandalwood, the Bengaluru Police arrested seven rowdies for formulating plans to murder several VVIPs including the producer of “Roberrt”, Umapathy.
“Roberrt” is touted to be an action-thriller in which “Challenging Star” Darshan plays the lead role and is set for a release soon.
According to the police, the rowdies were also planning to murder another producer by name Deepak, and a few other thugs.
Some of the arrested accused have been identified as Darshan, Rajan, Girish, Mohan, and Tony Joseph, who were among those nabbed by police near Basavanagudi from a tempo.
Umapathy informed that he had never received any threat calls nor does he have bad blood with anyone. “This is shocking news to me. I will meet the senior police officers,” he said.