227 cases registered, 128 suspects nabbed SIT files 9 chargesheets
The SIT has filed nine chargesheets in the gangster Nayeem case. On Monday officials said that 227 cases have been registered and 128 suspects were arrested. The investigations are in the final stage.
“During the probe, the SIT arrested 128 accused, and 109 were taken into custody. The SIT examined 895 witnesses. We could complete the investigation in 22 cases so far,” said a senior official from SIT.
“Five police officers were suspended and memos were issued to 20 officers. They were involved in the criminal activities of Nayeem and his associates,” he added.
An ex-member of the CPI (M-L) Peopl’'s War Group (PWG), the 45year-old Nayeemuddin is an accused in the murder of IPS officer N.S. Vyas, founder of the anti-Naxal elite force Greyhounds. He was also involved in over 20 murder cases, dozens of extortion cases and other offences. Nayeem was on the radar of the TS police in connection with the murder of TRS leader K. Ramulu, who was shot dead in 2014.
After he gave up the Naxalism, he became a gangster forming groups like the Nallama Cobras and the Kakatiya Cobras, which targeted human rights activists and Maoists for a long time. Nayeemuddin is an accused in around 100 cases of attempt to murder, extortion, kidnap, etc that took place in the last 21 years.
He was reported to have extorted millions of rupees from realtors and politicians.
After a nine-year manhunt, the Telangana State police killed Nayeem at Shadnagar last year. Police arrested the 22year-old man who abducted and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Balapur. The cops arrested the man’s mother too.
Police said the suspect, Md Azmatullah Khan, lured the girl with promises of marriage and took her to Karnataka, where he sexually assaulted her. A hunt is on for Azmatullah’s sister and his friend who helped him to trap the girl. Balapur inspector S. Mohan Reddy said that Azamullah Khan was the neighbour of the girl. This slowly led to both talking on the phone and later he proposed to her, but she rejected it.
He told his mother Rukiya Begum about his proposal and how she had rejected it and asked her to talk to the girl’s parents. When Rukiya spoke to the girl’s mother she also rejected it. But Azamullah kidnapped the girl with the help of his mother, 16year-old sister and friend Yousuf Ba. “On August 2, he took her to MGBS and from there went to Gulbarga. In Gulbarga he took a room in a lodge where he sexually assaulted the girl by force,” the inspector said. On the same night he brought her to Hyderabad and stayed at a dargah in Pahadishareef for one day and on Friday he dropped the girl at her home.