Bangalore: Three persons, including a broadcasting engineer of a Kannada news channel, were arrested in connection with the attack on noted industrialist P Dayanand Pai here, a top police official said today.

A 9 mm pistol and 30 rounds were recovered from one of the accused, City Police Commissioner Jyotiprakash Mirji told reporters here today.

Pai, noted industrialist and member, board of management, B.M.S Institute of Technology and syndicate member of Mangalore and Manipal Universities, was shot at, allegedly by a local gangster, over a property row on October 16.

Pai was being chauffeured towards the college from his office when the motorcycle-borne assailants rode up to his car and fired two rounds from both sides. The 65-year-old was not injured as his vehicle was bulletproof.