Summary:
Around midnight on Saturday, the Konankunte police surrounded Palani (30) alias Santosh, and three of his accomplices at Jambo Savari Dinne. This is the second such incident of the police shooting at the leg of an accused in “self defence”. As the cops surrounded him, Palani allegedly attacked a constable Kiran Kumar with a machete. Konankunte police fired two rounds in the air to dissuade Palani and then shot him on the left leg in self-defence, said S.D. Earlier this week, Hassain Pasha, who was accused of killing an elderly couple at Marathahalli, was also shot at by the police..