Pseudo cop gang busted, 6 nabbed

Police busted a pseudo police and fake I-T officials’ gang who robbed a trader and his aides of `9.2 lakh a week ago by arresting six people. The gang had stopped and searched the victim’s car, and kidnapped his team before taking away the cash in `2,000 notes while he was transporting the money to Vikarabad.

The gang claimed that they are I-T officials and members of the Special Operation Team of Cyberabad.

The victim, Mohammed Salman Pasha from Vikarabad, had come to Hyderabad to exchange currency and had got `9.2 lakh in `2,000 notes from his friends.

He and his two aides, Krishna and Shakeel, were returning to Vikarabad with the cash on November 26 when they were robbed.

“They had stopped their car at Langer Houz Green Bawarchi Hotel to have dinner. The suspects came there in a car with a beacon light on it. They picked up the victims, beat them up and searched their car. After finding the money they forcibly confined the victims inside the car, and took them to the Income-Tax Tower area in Masab Tank, where some more people joined them stating they were I-T officials. Later, they took the victim to Tippu Khan bridge near Golconda, dropped them there and fled with the cash,” said DCP Venkateshwar Rao.

Police arrested the suspects, Shiraz Ahmed, 46, an accountant from Tolichowki, Mohammed Irfan, 29, from Langer Houz, Syed Imroz Ahmed, 30, Gulshan Colony, Syed Mustafa Ali, 19, from Domalguda, Syed Azher Hussain, 22, from Golconda and Mahmood Khan, 53, from Hussaini Alam. Police said three more people were absconding.

The gang had got info about the victim’s movements and had chalked out a plan to rob him, officials said.