Mangalore, March 15: In an apparent murder bid, Karnataka State Beary Sahitya Academy President Rahim Uchil on Thursday afternoon was attacked with a sharp weapon by gang of assailants in city.
It is learnt that two miscreants in the gang stormed into the office of Academy in Presidium complex at Attavar and brutally attacked Uchil around 1:45 pm.
A severely injured Uchil was rushed to Unity Hospital in the city for emergency treatment.
Medical sources said that the condition of the victim is critical, as he sustained severe injuries on his head and other parts of the body.
Senior police officers rushed to the spot. Sniffer dogs were also pressed into action. Police have recovered a sharp weapon, which was found lying near the spot. The assailants have also left their bag in which the weapons were brought at the spot of crime and slippers belonging to them have also been found, it is learnt.
It is being reported that four persons arrived at the spot in two Bajaj Pulsar motorbikes and attacked Uchil when hardly anyone was present in the office. Two women staff of the Academy, who spoke to media persons after the attack, said that they had finished their lunch and left the office to wash their hands.
"The assailants may have threatened the lone staff who sits in the front portion of the office and attacked Mr. Uchil. We had gone out to wash hands and we heard sounds of glass breaking. We thought it could be coming from the nearby hotel. But we realised that all shopkeepers around were closing down their shutters and we too got into one such shop", said a woman staff of the Academy.
Umarabba, Registrar of the Academy said that he had been to attend a wedding. "I was not here at the spot when the incident took place. It appears that the assailants had planned their time of attack", he said.
Mr Uchil, who took over as the Academy president on February 6, this year, is also the General Secretary of the Dakshina Kannada District unit of BJP Minority Morcha. He is also one of the members of District Wakf Advisory Council.
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