No amount of explanation will suffice, but we did everything we could to prevent any act of terrorism, says Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Former Andhra Pradesh minister Bhuma Akhila Priya was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a former badminton player and his two brothers from here over a land dispute, police said.
The high court directed that the video of the post-mortem in compact disc form or pen-drive be handed over to the principal district judge, Mahabubnagar, after completion of the post-mortem of all the accused.
"Had she called up the police, she could have been saved," Home Minister Ali told ANI.
"The four directors of the company, including Michael Ferreira, have been brought to Hyderabad from Mumbai on warrant," a senior police official attached to Central Crime Station, a wing of Hyderabad Police, said on Wednesday.
With the arrest of Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin fake encounter, the heat is on for some officials in the Hyderabad police department.In a letter written to Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi, the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee has claimed that many officers in the Hyderabad police department had provided logistical support for the encounter.The letter says that the Hyderabad police had even halted traffic.
The Hyderabad police blame their counterparts in Delhi for not sharing information about a recce of Dilksukhnagar conducted by Indian Mujahideen's Sayed Maqbool. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A gold tiffin box inlaid with diamonds, a cup studded with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, a saucer and a spoon, belonging to the 7th Nizam Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, were recovered from the accused.
The Shoaib Malik controversy is getting murkier. The Hyderabad police have decided to get the nikhanama verified by the Forensics Science Laboratory in Hyderabad as the Pakistan cricketer has alleged that his signature was forged. An officer in the Hyderabad police department told rediff.com that the matter will now be probed by the special wing of the Hyderabad police, known as the Central Crime Station.
The 60 hours of CCTV footage obtained by the special cell of the Hyderabad police will be crucial in cracking the twin blasts case. The police have managed to get access to footage from four cameras installed near the Dilsusknagar blast site.
The debate over intelligence regarding the Hyderabad twin blasts has already commenced. While the Intelligence Bureau says that there was intelligence that was provided, the Hyderabad police say that the intelligence was not specific in nature.
Three city-based youths, who were arrested last month for allegedly planning to join jihadi terror groups such as ISIS, were taken into police custody on Tuesday.
The Hyderabad police are studying the pattern pertaining to the shootout that took place on Friday in which one police constable was killed. The pattern is very similar to what happened last year, and there could be more attacks of a similar nature in future, fear both the Hyderabad police and the Intelligence Bureau.
Bassi said his transfer to Andaman and Nicobar Islands on October 24 is "malafide and derails a sensitive probe" and added that allegations against Asthana are "grave".
The NIA sleuths also recovered weapons, ammunition, urea, acid, some chemicals, electronic gadgets and other incriminating material besides Rs 15 lakh in cash from their possession, officials of the NIA and Hyderabad Police said, adding the youths were working at the behest of IS handlers.
'India has a conviction rate of about 25% for serious crimes. This means that 75% of the time the police probably get the wrong suspect, and this makes murdering them in an encounter more morally problematic for the officers concerned.' says Aakar Patel.
The nexus between the Telugu film industry and the drug mafia has been revealed with the Hyderabad police arresting two brothers of popular film actor Ravi Teja, along with two others. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said that Naga Babu and Bharat Raju, both brothers of Ravi Teja, along with their friend Naresh and an Ugandan national Cheema were arrested near a hotel in Jubilee Hills on Thursday night while they were buying drugs from the foreigner.
Even as the investigations into the firing incident has just commenced, the Hyderabad police is suspecting the involvement of a man named Viqaruddin, who has been on the run for the last three years, in the Friday attack.
Khwaja is a self styled commander of the HuJI and had concentrated largely on operations in south India. The police say that he is likely to have information on the manner in which the HuJI had masterminded the Hyderabad twin blasts.
"After seeing the conditions in ISIS-controlled areas, she decided to come back."
As the interrogation of self-styled Harkat-ul-Jihadi commander, Abdul Khwaja progresses, the Hyderabad police have stumbled on vital clues regarding his sinister plans for South India. Khwaja, it is learnt, has told the police that his main target was Chennai and the purpose behind his visit to India was also to recruit more youth for terror operations.
Even as details regarding the financial transactions which financed the Mumbai terror attacks emerge, another man who the police suspect could be associated with the financing has been put on the radar of investigating agencies.
At present, the state has 81 such courts. Of the new 218, 144 will be for rape cases, 74 for POCSO cases.
Amjed Ullah Khan, who carried out investigations of his own and helped rescue 15 women from Hyderabad, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com how the women get trapped in an underground slave market that 'sells' them to employers who force them to work for less or no pay and often under inhuman conditions.
A group of people on Monday night attacked a police station at Secunderabad city over death of a man, who was earlier detained in connection with a scuffle.
A Naik Subedar with Army was on Wednesday arrested by the Hyderabad police on the charge of sharing information about strategic locations of Army bases and deployment of units with a woman, suspected to be a Pakistani national, through the Internet.
NCW chief Rekha Sharma said the family told NCW member Shyamal S Kunder that the police played a "negative role" in the case. Kunder said the family claimed that before filing the complaint, the police even levelled allegation that "she had eloped with someone", Sharma added.
Gangster Aziz Reddy alias Baba Reddy was shot dead by the Hyderabad police in the posh Jubilee hills area of the city on Wednesday night. As the policemen closed in on the gang, Reddy and his associates tried to flee. The police asked them to surrender, but Reddy started firing at the police. The police returned the fire and Reddy was killed in the ensuing shootout.The police commissioner said that Reddy was a close associate of Mumbai's underworld don Chhota Rajan.
The letters were reportedly recovered after the anti-Naxal operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, in which 39 Maoists were killed, in April.
The Hyderabad police will hold talks with their Uttar Pradesh counterparts and also interrogate Mohammad Tariq, a Harkat Ul-Jihadi operative who was arrested in connection with the November 23 UP serial blasts.
Local Deputy Superintendent of Police Ramana Murthy maintained that since the lockdown was in force and the inter-state borders have been sealed, no vehicle or person could be allowed into the state.
The SIT has secured important leads about the role of Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami's south India chief Mohammed Abdul Shahid alias Bilal.
Facebook -- which counts India among its largest markets with over 300 million users -- has been in the eye of a storm after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report alleged that the social media platform's content policies favoured the ruling party in India. The report had accused Facebook of ignoring posts containing hate speech by BJP MLA Raja Singh. Since then, the ruling BJP and Congress have been trading barbs over the social media giant's alleged political bias.
Preliminary investigations by the police indicated that all the three victims were killed in a similar manner by the killers who assaulted them and smashed their heads with boulders.
They claim that all the seven criminal cases pertaining to him have been disposed of by the courts.
A man was on Friday arrested for allegedly trying to mislead the police by claiming that information 'accessed' by him, using a specially developed software, indicated another terrorist attack in Hyderabad soon.
Banned militant outfit Indian Mujahideen's name has cropped up in the preliminary investigation into the twin blasts in Hyderabad in which the toll climbed to 16 on Friday.
Government data shows getting justice is a long-drawn-out process for rape victims.
The commissioner said the police suspected the four accused may be involved in similar such offences.
Vicky Nanjappa reports on the latest terror threat to Hyderabad coinciding with the festival of Shivratri on March 10
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