hyderabad a retired police inspector and three others were arrested on monday as the former cop allegedly conspired to kill a man who in the past reportedly got the former arrested by anticorruption bureau acb police have seized a countrymade weapon from the accusedaddressing a press conference hyderabad police commissioner cv anand said that former inspector 62yearold dasari bhoomaiah hired three assailants m chandraiah g royagolla alias shankar and g kumar former members of banned naxal outfit to eliminate vijaypal reddy bhoomaiah who is from karimnagar and did most of his service in that district even paid an advance of 5 lakh but police foiled his conspiracy and arrested them bhoomaiah was involved in antimaoist operations for a long time while discharging his duties vijaypal was a reliable informant subsequently vijaypal got into real estate the top cop saidthe informant later became business partner of bhoomaiah after some time they developed differences in 2018 bhoomaiah was trapped by acb sleuths for acquiring disproportionate assets after his release from jail bhoomaiah suspected the role of vijaypal in his arrest meanwhile bhoomaiahs anger against vijaypal aggravated further when the latter refused to allow him to cultivate his land in basheerabad mandal in rangareddy districtbhoomaiah decided to eliminate vijaypal and hired chandraiah and assured to pay 50 lakh for killing his rival chandraiah contacted shanker previously associated with a naxal outfit who in turn contacted the other two accused kumar who has a countrymade weapon and two others did recce of vijaypals house near ashta lakshmi temple at chaitanyapuribased on a tipoff a task force team raided a hotel at secunderabad and nabbed chandraiah and later arrested three more accused they seized a countrymade gun two sickles 1 lakh cash and six mobile phones from their possession