The Hyderabad police seem to have cracked the attempted kidnap of Aurobindo Pharma MD Nityananda Reddy.

The suspect is believed to be a former Greyhound constable named Ombulesh, who confessed that he committed a similar crime earlier.  The constable is attached to the elite anti-Naxal outfit of Andhra Pradesh, called Greyhound.

Reddy's car was fired upon on Wednesday morning near the KBR park in the high-profile Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad.

According to an eyewitness, the unidentified attacker sat in Reddy's car and then threatened him with an AK-47 rifle. However, Reddy's brother, who was sitting in the car's rear seat, tried to resist the attacker's attempt. In the scuffle, the attacker fired some rounds at the car's windshield. An AK-47 and seven rounds of ammunition were left behind before the man, suspected to be Ombulesh, fled.