bengaluru police arrested six men on wednesday for assaulting and attempting to murder the owner of a school in hesaraghatta they are searching for the man who gave them a contract for rs 15 lakh to carry out the slaying over a business rivalry and his aideramachandra reddy who runs rc international school at thammenahalli near hesaraghatta and his associate mohan hired the six accused to eliminate nageshwara rao police saidpolice arrested srinivasa murthy alias seena 37 of abbigere his associates venkatesh 29 a realtor from bhaktanapalya yogesh alias yogi 27 and adarsha alias adi both residents of heggadadevanapura nagesh kumar 24 of singapura and veerabhadra alias veeraraju 29 of summanahallisuperintendent of police bengaluru rural district ram nivas sepat said the gang travelling in two cars stopped rao around 830am on may 17 when he was returning to the city from gauribidanur in his car near kumbalakunte on the madhurerajanukunte road they assaulted rao who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in hebbalin a statement to police rao said he suspected that the owners of rival schools were responsible for the attack police named the managements of six private schools in the firsepat formed a special team headed by additional superintendent of police vj sajeeth and deputy superintendent of police r mohan kumar to probe the caserao a teacher at rc international school had quit the job a year ago to start hsnl school in hesaraghatta reddy was angry with rao for leaving the job and becoming a competitor reddy believed rao allowed students to pay their fees in instalments and lured students from his former school with lower feesreddy decided to eliminate rao and hired contract killers to do the job sujeeth saidpolice produced the six accused before court and took seena and venkatesh into custody for further investigation the court sent the four other accused to judicial custodyseena faces two cases including the murder of former gandhinagar congress corporator nataraj in 2011 police said he was released on bail a few years ago and started a real estate business seena agreed to eliminate rao for rs 15 lakh and arranged for the five other hit men the assailants who learnt that rao and his wife sridevi had gone to gauribidanur on may 15 decided to strike when he returned to the cityhis wife stayed back at gauribidanur and rao returned alone in his car on may 17 when he reached kumbalakunte at 830am his car was rearended by another fourwheeler when he stopped his car to check what had happened a third car arrived at the scene and three men wielding machetes alighted from it they hacked rao all over his body before driving awaypolice seized the cars and weapons used in the attack