Deccan Chronicle

Burglar evades police clutches for 10 months

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT HYDERABAD, AUG. 19

A notorious robber from Hyderabad involved in 38 burglaries and accused of disposing stolen gold in Dubai through human smugglers has kept police teams of Cyberabad and Rachakonda on their toes for the past 10 months.

The robber’s strategy to stay out of the police radar is not to use electronic gadgets to communicat­e with his family or his gang.

Mohammed Khaleel alias Chor Khaleel alias Shareef of Hyderabad, along with his close aide Nunsavath Shiva alias Jabbar and a team of ten members were involved in 38 crimes at Tuljapur and Sholapur in Maharashtr­a,

To stay out of police radar, Khaleel avoids using electronic gadgets.

Burgled 38 houses in five months after release on bail in Oct 2017.

Wanaparthi, Nagarkurno­ol, Kothakota, Pebber, Rajendra Nagar and Vanasthali­puram in Telangana, Kurnool and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.

Infamous for his modus operandi, Khaleel chooses three different persons for every operation. He changes the gang each time so that they do not leave behind any clues for the police to trace him. Also not using a mobile phone is Khaleel’s way of keeping the police on the run. He only uses public telephone booths to contact his family, especially his wife, who is in Aurangabad.

Khaleel and his aide Shiva were last seen by the police in November last year before they got bail. They were arrested in June 2017 and were lodged at Chanchalgu­da Central Prison, where they became friends and formed a gang. According to sources, recently, in July, the police teams of Cyberabad, Hyderabad and Rachakonda, learnt about a telephone call to his wife.

The call was from a public telephone booth in Narsaraope­t in Guntur of Andhra Pradesh. The police rushed there, but he escaped.

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