Bekkina Kannu Rajendra – From Gangster to “Businessman”Bangalore’s underworld

Let me tell you about Bekkina Kannu Rajendra.

They called him “Cat Eye.” Not because he was cool. Because he watched. He waited. He struck from the shadows.

And in the end? The shadows swallowed him too.

Who Was This Guy?

Rajendra wasn’t a don. He wasn’t a king. He was something else entirely—a hired blade. A man who made his name not by building anything, but by attacking the people who did.

In the 1980s, when Bangalore’s underworld was boiling with big names like Kotwal Ramachandra and M.P. Jayaraj, Rajendra was the guy in the background. The one they called when they wanted someone hit. The one who did the dirty work and disappeared back into the darkness.

He attacked Kotwal. He attacked Jayaraj. Two of the biggest names in the city.

But here’s the thing—he never did it for himself. He did it because someone paid him. Because someone told him to. He was a tool, not a leader. A knife in someone else’s hand.

The Cat Eye

His nickname tells you everything.

A cat doesn’t roar. A cat doesn’t challenge you to a fight. A cat sits in the corner, watches you with those cold eyes, and waits for the right moment to pounce.

That was Rajendra. Always watching. Always waiting. Never the one in charge, but always the one who could end you when you least expected it.

Police who worked during that time remember him as one of the “young bloods”—the new generation of gangsters in the late 80s who fought bloody battles to take over areas like Mahalakshmi Layout, Vijayanagar, and Srirampura. But while others wanted power, Rajendra wanted contracts. Jobs. Money.

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He wasn’t building a kingdom. He was building a resume.

From Gangster to “Businessman”

Then the 90s came. Liberalisation. The IT boom. And the gangsters realized something important: crime with a business suit pays better than crime with a knife.

Rajendra was smart enough to figure that out.

He got into real estate. He got into the cable business. And most importantly, he became a contractor for the BDA and BBMP—the government bodies that build roads, layouts, and buildings in Bangalore.

Think about that for a moment.

The same man who once attacked people with machetes was now getting government contracts. How? Through connections. Through politicians who owed him favors. Through threats and kickbacks and deals made in dark rooms.

He was no longer just a gangster. He was a shady businessman with a gangster’s past and a politician’s phone number.

The Enemy He Made

But in this world, every move creates enemies. And Rajendra had made one big one.

Gedda Nagaraj.

They were associates once. Partners. Friends, even. They ran together in the 80s, fought together, built reputations together.

Then things went bad. Rajendra forced Nagaraj out of Srirampura—their territory. Humiliated him. Made him leave like a beaten dog.

And then Nagaraj’s brother, Kitty, died in a police encounter. Nagaraj blamed Rajendra for that too. Maybe it was true. Maybe it wasn’t. In this world, truth doesn’t matter. What matters is what you believe.

Nagaraj believed Rajendra had taken everything from him. His area. His pride. His brother.

And he waited. Just like Rajendra used to wait. Watched. Planned.

The Hotel Chalukya Attack

November 2003. High Grounds, Bangalore. Hotel Chalukya.

Rajendra was coming out of the hotel. Maybe he’d had a meeting. Maybe he was just having dinner. We’ll never know.

What we know is this: five men came at him. With weapons. With purpose.

They didn’t give him a chance to run. They didn’t give him a chance to talk. They just… hacked him. Again and again. On the head. On the neck. On his hands as he tried to protect himself.

By the time it was over, Bekkina Kannu Rajendra—the man who attacked Kotwal, who attacked Jayaraj, who survived decades in the underworld—was lying in a pool of blood outside a hotel.

Dead.

The Irony

Here’s the part that gets me.

The man who planned it all? Gedda Nagaraj. His old friend turned enemy.

And one of the suspects in the murder? Silent Sunil. Another contract killer. Another man who made his name by working in the shadows.

Think about that.

Rajendra built his whole career on being the guy who attacks from the dark. The guy who does the dirty work for others. The guy who never shows his face until it’s too late.

And in the end, he was killed by the exact same kind of man.

The predator became prey. The hunter got hunted.

That’s the circle of this world. You live by the knife, you die by the knife. You make your name by attacking people from the shadows, and one day, someone attacks you from the shadows.

And nobody cries for you. Because that’s the deal you signed.

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What He Left Behind

Nothing.

No empire. No loyal gang. No son to carry his name. No business that survived him.

Just a few contracts that went to someone else. A few politicians who found new friends. A few streets in Srirampura that forgot his name within a decade.

He was a contractor for the government. He was involved in real estate. He had connections. But when he died, it all died with him.

Because he never built anything. He just took. Just attacked. Just survived from one day to the next.

And surviving isn’t the same as building.

The Real Lesson

Bekkina Kannu Rajendra’s story is not a glamorous one. It’s not a movie script. It’s not something to admire.

It’s a warning.

He started as a hired blade in the 80s. Attacked big names. Got a reputation. Moved into business. Got government contracts. Made money. Made connections.

And still, at the end, he was lying in a hotel parking lot with his blood mixing with the gutter water.

Because in this world, your past doesn’t go away. The enemies you make don’t forget. The violence you used to climb up? One day, someone uses it to pull you down.

He was a predator. And predators, in the end, always meet a bigger predator.

Or in his case, just a hungrier one.

Final Words

They called him Cat Eye. Because he watched from the shadows.

But the shadows have eyes too. And one night, they watched him back.

Bekkina Kannu Rajendra. A brutal enforcer. A crooked businessman. A man who attacked Kotwal. Who attacked Jayaraj. Who thought he could trade violence for power and get away with it.

In the end, he got exactly what he gave.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

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