Man Arrested For Plotting To Kill HR Manager As Revenge For Being Fired

A 30-year-old man was arrested for plotting to kill his former HR manager. The accused allegedly ganged up with four of his friends to avenge being fired from the company he worked for in India.

Madhu D. worked for a private firm in the city of Bengaluru, at Aerospace Park, and was employed for more than 10 years at the company, which supplies equipment to the Indian ministry of defence, according to The Times of India.

Despite the company’s policy that forbids employees from using mobile phones or cameras while at work, Madhu was reportedly caught several times using his mobile phone and recording videos of some of the equipment. Several notices were issued to him, but Madhu neither complied with the company’s policy nor responded to the notices, according to the outlet.

The accused was sacked around two months before the company's HR manager, Rajashekhar Rai, 46, was attacked.

Madhu allegedly teamed up with four of his friends and hatched a plan to murder Rai. The gang is said to have gotten drunk and attacked the HR manager’s car on March 8. The mob thrashed the vehicle using rods and machetes, but the plan was foiled by Rai’s driver who quickly locked the doors from the inside and sped away.

The driver reportedly drove straight to a police station a few miles away with the gang right on their tail. Once they arrived at the police station, however, the miscreants vanished from the scene, according to Deccan Herald.

Rai told cops that he could not recognize the suspects because they had their faces covered. However, the HR manager told cops that he suspects Madhu might be behind the attack.

While Rai registered a complaint, Madhu resorted to a new plan and told his fellow attackers that he wanted Rai dead that very night. The men waited outside Rai’s house, but by the time he returned home, the inebriated gang had fallen asleep. They gave up on the murder plan the next morning.

Cops tracked Madhu and his accomplices down and arrested the group Friday, The New Indian Express reported.

Rai’s driver sustained a minor hand injury, but the vehicle was significantly damaged in the attack.