Seven more held for Old City violence Hyderabad, April 10 (INN): The City Police on Tuesday arrested seven more people who were allegedly involved in the recent communal incidents of Madannapet and Saidabad police station limits.
Addressing a press conference, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department - Crimes & SIT) J Satyanarayana said that the arrests were made in connection with 26 cases registered in different police stations in the Old City.
He said the arrests were made based on the scientific evidence including CC cameras, photographs published in newspapers and video clippings of news channels.
The DCP said that all the cases were being transferred to the Special Investigation Team which would comprise of two ACPs and seven inspectors.
Three accused - Syed Amjad Ali (19), Mohd Nizam (22) and Mohd Dastagir (30) were arrested in a case of stone pelting incidents that occurred at Kurmaguda in Madannapet police limits.
Another accused, Syed Shakir has been arrested in a case of Madannapet PS where he along with others damaged an auto-rickshaw and beat the auto-driver P Surender at Royal Embassy College.
Two more persons - Yousuf Siddiqui and Mir Mudassar Ali have been arrested for attempting to kill two persons Ravi and Murali at graveyard behind Chanchalguda Women's Jail in the Madannapet PS.
Another accused - M Mallikarjun Reddy has been arrested on the charges of pelting stones on the houses and damaging RTC buses at Jai Hind Hotel Road at Saidabad.
The DCP said that efforts were on to arrest the absconding accused in all the cases. So far, the City Police has arrested 12 people in different cases of communal violence.
So far the police has registered 11 cases in Saidabad PS; six in Madannapet; four in Moghalpura; two in Kanchanbagh and one each in Hussain Alam and Chandrayangutta police station limits.
News Posted: 10 April, 2012
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