3 Peddlers of Hash Oil, Charas, 4 Users Nabbed

Hyderabad: West zone task force nabbed three peddlers and four consumers including a woman and seized 310 ml of hashish oil and 70 grams of charas from them at Filmnagar late on Saturday.

Police said that the accused procured the contraband from Araku in Visakhapatnam agency area of Andhra Pradesh.

The accused were identified as kingpins Syed Muzaffar Ali and Abubaker Bin Abdul Aziz, transporter Mohd Qaseem. All the accused are college dropouts and got addicted to drugs through common friends. The peddlers started out as consumers before joining the trade, police said.

Two other accused, Zeeshan Naveed and Syed Anwarullah Hussaini Qadri, associated with the gang are absconding.

One of the consumers, who is part of the family's catering business, has been under the radar for the past few months as her name cropped up in one of the cases, police said. They waited for proper evidence before nabbing her.

Police found that Mohd Qaseem would travel to the agency area, get the contraband and handover it to Muzaffar Ali and Abdul Aziz, who then packed it into small sachets and supplied it. They were selling the drug for '3,500 per 5 ml quantity. All the accused were handed over to the Filmnagar police for further action.

Man Kills Wife of 10 Years on Suspicion

Hyderabad: Banothu Jabbar Lal, a daily wage labourer, allegedly stabbed his wife wife Banothu Jyoti, 33, to death at their home in Adibatla, Rachakonda police said. Police said that he could have killed her on suspicion that she was having an affair with other men.

The couple was married for close to a decade but quarrels broke out between them over his suspicion. Police said the couple had argued on Sunday before the murder.

Alerted by locals, police rushed to the spot and shifted the victim to Vanasthalipuram Area Hospital, where doctors declared her dead. Police launched a hunt to nab Lal.

Killer of Couple Went to Vote, 2 Others Fled

Hyderabad: Mohd Salman, one of the three accused in the murder of a couple over financial issues, cast his vote on November 30 for the Telangana Assembly elections, a day after the murder. A welder by profession, he continued with his daily routine, while his two associates, Asghar Shaikh and Mohammed Hussain from Mumbai, fled to the metropolis.

The trio had first killed Syed Ahmed Quadri, a goat trader on the night of November 28 and buried the body near a tank on the same night. The next evening, they killed his wife Syeda Meraj Fatima. Fatima’s murder first came to light on November 30, when her sister came to their house, as Fatima was not taking phone calls.

The accused were confident that the cops would suspect Quadri for Fatima’s murder and assumed they would be safe. But when the police started scanning the CCTV cameras and working on the leads, they zeroed in on Salman, who told them of the murders.

Till then, there was no clue of Quadri’s killing or even of him going missing. Investigation into the murder of Fatima led cops to nab the suspects, but also a discovery of Quadri’s murder.

The trio killed the couple over a dispute that Shaikh had with Quadri over Rs.20 lakh investment in goat trading. The trio were arrested and sent to judicial remand on Saturday.