Accused in police officer’s 1992 killing arrested
January 2nd, 2012 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANSHyderabad, Jan 2 (IANS) Police in Hyderabad Monday arrested Mohammed Najeeb Ahmed, an accused in the killing of a senior police officer in the city in 1992.
Najeeb alias Mohammed Sikander Ali was absconding after he and his brother Mohammed Mujeeb Ahmed gunned down Additional Superintendent of Police (Intelligence) G. Krishna Prasad and his gunman G. Venkateswara Rao Nov 29, 1992 at Brindavan Colony in Tolichowki area when they were raiding an alleged hideout of a Kashmiri terrorist outfit.
Mujeeb is currently lodged in Ajmer jail in Rajasthan serving a life sentence in an arms smuggling case.
According to J. Sathyanarayana, deputy commissioner of police in the detective department, Najeeb was arrested from Bandlaguda Chandrayangutta in the old city, where he was living under the fictitious name of Sikander Ali.
The accused was evading arrest by changing his residence and name from time to time. He was earlier hiding in West Bengal, where he married a local girl.
Police said that after returning to Hyderabad, Najeeb was working as a travel agent and had obtained voter ID card and ration card by using fake documents.
Najeeb’s brother Mujeeb was sentenced to life for the killing of the police officer but was released by the government in 2004 as an act of goodwill.
He was arrested again in 2005 after he re-activated his contacts with Hizbul Mujahideen and other terror groups.
Rajasthan Police had seized a cache of arms including Kalashnikov assault rifles, 229 cartridges and 15 detonators hidden in a truck carrying marble to Hyderabad.
Police said Mujeeb, the self-styled commander of Hizbul Mujahideen for south India, and his associates were planning to carry out subversive activities in Hyderabad with the arms and ammunition smuggled from Kashmir.
In 2009, a court in Hyderabad sentenced Mujeeb to life imprisonment and six others to 10 years in the arms smuggling case.
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